Paper Native American Objects

A very desirable and quite rare signed photograph/cabinet-card portrait of renowned Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux holy man Chief Sitting Bull (circa 1831-1890) - perhaps the most famed and r...

An original platinum photograph on textured paper by iconic American photographer Edward Curtis titled "The Piki Maker" The photograph is hand-signed in ink, blind-stamped with Cur...

ABOUT Edward S. Curtis (1868 - 1952) The Potter Santa Clara. Photogravure on handmade Dutch "Van Gelder" paper stock. Numbered in plate, upper left: Plate 602. Titled in plate, lower...

ABOUT A study of form and collective history, this original 1925 photogravure by Edward S. Curtis captures a cluster of Zuni ceramic jars. Titled "Zuni Pottery...

ABOUT A rare and soulful window into the American West, this original 1925 photogravure by Edward S. Curtis is a study in texture, heritage, and light. Titled "Tsi'yone ('Flying') –...

PIERRETTE VILLENEUVE (b.1944 - Aboriginal Metis Huron Wendat) - 'Les Patineurs - Canal Rideau' (The Ice Skaters - Rideau Canal) - Vintage watercolor painting on paper - original meta...

A rare and evocative 1922 photograph by French photographer Odile Bouligny, captured in Laguna, New Mexico, depicting two Indigenous women seated together with an array of pottery ve...

ABOUT A quiet, evocative study of craft and composure, this original 1907 photogravure by Edward S. Curtis captures a Tohono O'odham (Papago) woman at work. Titled "The Papago Potte...

ABOUT A geometric narrative of form and heritage, this original 1925 photogravure by Edward S. Curtis presents a masterful still life of traditional Pueblo vessels. Titled "Cochiti ...

Dana Claxton: Fringing the Cube by Grant Arnold, Monika Kin Gagnon and Olivia Michiko Gagnon. Figure 1 Publishing, Vancouver, 2019. 1st Ed hardcover. Know...

R. S. MACDONALD (Unknown/Unidentified Artist) - 'Raven Stealing the Sun' - Aboriginal colored pencil drawing on paper - original metal frame with single matte board and glass - title...

Ledger drawing on South Dakota ledger paper given. Portraying warrior on horseback with headdress and lance in green shirt and yellow leggings. Given as a gift to a South Dakota ranc...

This is a very rare and important original image of early Western Americana, or more specifically, "Californiana". Mid 19th century and researched to have been engraved in 1856, it captures, in incredible detail, a group of twelve Native American Indians with a baby in a papoose, gathered together in front of their hanging tools, baskets, implements and weaponry behind them on a "tent like" backdrop. There are men, women, young, and elderly. It is a signed wood cut engraving applied in ink by well known wood cut engraver of the mid 19th century, William J. Peirce (active 1851-1879). It is in excellent all original condition with no additions, no restoration of any kind and it is housed in it's original 1 1/2" double beveled wooden birds eye maple veneered frame with a gilt 1/2" filet interior border. "A Group Of California Indians" is engraved at the base along with a non-descript notation "For description see page 381" which appears in the margin, in addition to an illegible signature. Both these line items are also noted by the New York Public Library, where a digital example exists from the esteemed collection of "The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division Picture Collection", which was assembled in 1986 and recently digitalized. The Library of Congress also memorializes this image and theirs is similarly a digital image. My example came out of the Grant Smith Collection of "Californiana", as is noted on the back of the framed engraving. He was located at Main Street in Bolinas, California (see images on the rear for provenance). Research reveals that he was a direct descendant of the coastal Miwok people who built a settlement in the Bolinas lagoon area. The engraving is referenced in both the New York Library and The Library of Congress as "A Group of California Indians". It is one of the earlier images you will find, along with McKenny and Hall lithographed mages of Native American Indians; and because of it's subject matter and extreme rarity, "A Group Of California Indians" commands attention and interest from the Western art collectors' arena. California became a state on September 9, 1850 making this one of the earliest known images (Circa 1856) of "Californiana" and California Native American...

This original watercolor painting by San Ildefonso Pueblo artist Jose Roybal (1922–1978) beautifully captures the ceremonial Pueblo Harvest Dance, a celebr...

Robert Gary Miller "Pauline" ( Indigenous Canadian 1950-) 1990 signed and numbered 7/10 artist proof lithograph. Framed and matted. See our other items for more R.G. Miller paintings. Actual size- 22.5" H x 18.5" W, framed size- 33.38 H x 28.75 W About the Artist Robert Gary Miller-Lahiaaks was born in 1950 on the six nations...

Roan Eagle, Wanbli Hito (Lakota, b. 1863) ledger drawing, untitled. Warrior on horseback. Pencil and watercolor; 7 1/4" x 12". Framed. Wanbli Hito, also known as Roan Eagle, was a La...