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Item Ships From: Illinois
Collection of (3) Native American Folk Art Canoes
Located in Chicago, IL
Collection of (3) Native American Folk Art Children's Toy Canoes most likely made between the 1940's and 1950's. Two of the Folk Art Children's Canoes were made from Birchbark, while...
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1950s American Folk Art Vintage Illinois - Native American Objects
Materials
Wood, Birch
Vintage South American Hand-woven Textile Panel in Green, Blue, Red, Black
Located in Barrington, IL
Vintage Hand-Woven South American textile panel in banded stripes pattern with brilliant stripes in colors of Blue, red, green, black, orange and magenta. The textile has an extremely fine weave and a very high quality handspun wool that was hand dyed with natural vegetable dyes. It would be an ideal piece as wall art.
Dimensions: 34" x 44"
Date of Manufacture: 2nd Quarter of the 1900s
Place of Origin: South America
Material: Very fine wool fiber with natural vegetable dyes
Condition: Good
Mexican Handwoven Textiles, Vintage Mexican Textiles...
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Late 20th Century Peruvian Illinois - Native American Objects
Materials
Wool
Petite Pre-Columbian Redware Olla
Located in Chicago, IL
Exhibiting a rich patina and a beautifully irregular pattern of pitted wear, this petite redware olla vessel shows many telltale signs of Pre-Columbian pottery. The vessel has a glob...
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15th Century and Earlier Central American Pre-Columbian Antique Illinois - Native American Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Petite Pre-Columbian Chupícuaro Redware Olla
Located in Chicago, IL
This small olla jar is a beautiful example of Mesoamerican pottery, decorated with red, white, and orange slip in the style of Chupícuaro ware. Th...
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15th Century and Earlier Central American Pre-Columbian Antique Illinois - Native American Objects
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Early 20th Century Navajo Rug
Located in Chicago, IL
A striking early 20th century Navajo blanket with a bold all-over diamond pattern woven in crimson, white, gray, and black wool.
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1940s North American Navajo Vintage Illinois - Native American Objects
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American Folk-Art Carved Wooden Canoe
Located in Chicago, IL
American folk-art canoe, probably from Alaska, but could also be American Indian. Has quite a bit of age to it and I would expect it was made in the early 1800s. The canoers are made...
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Early 1900s American Antique Illinois - Native American Objects
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This remarkable sculpture figure is carved in a medium green jade with brown inclusions. This example has a large triangular carved head, slanted eyes, hands to its sides prominent nasal, open mouth, and pointed base.
As chieftains and important shamans were deified after death this sculpture may represent a cacique chief or high status member of Taino Community.
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