The Big Bonanza Auction: Mining, Philatelic, Numismatics, Americana (March 2023)

Pot with 4 notched rib patterns, vertical fingernail line surround base. 4.25x5". .75" lip chip, no visible breaks. Soil residue inside bo...

Old pot with indented rim and fingernail hashmarks. 2.5x6.5". Low density. 2 lip chips and 2" lip repair. Date: Country (if not USA): ...

An old Native American pot with tan, black and clay colors. Round bottom with signs of use. 4x7". 1.5" top side crack. Date: Country (i...

Old brown pot, dense for the size. Mouth 3.5", 5.75x7.25". No apparent chips or cracks. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: ...

Old dark pot with 2 small side handles. Marked with fingernails on handles and lip. 6.5x7.75". 5 sides chips about 1-1.5". Date: Count...

Partially reconstructed old pot with top hashmarks and repeating horizontal design. Most pieces present. 5.25x5.25". Sold as is. Date: Count...

2 old small pots. Round brown with horizontal repeating pattern, 3x4". Reconstructed 3 section pot with 2 side tab handles. 2.75x4.25", li...

2 old Southwestern pots. Brown with 2 side handles, several internal cracks and a few internal chips, appears to be repaired, 3.5x6.5". Reddish...

A pot for storing liquid with an integrated base featuring multiple small perorations. 1.25" lip expands to 6.5" at center. 9" tall. ...

Sand colored pot with faded tan internal stripes. 2.5x7.75". No apparent chips or cracks. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Pro...

Tapered small mouth pot. Mouth 3.5", center 7", 6.75" tall. 3/8" side chip, no apparent cracks. Date: Country (if not USA): ...

Mini Olla pot, lina gray. Cibola Province, AZ. c. 600 AD, 2.5x2.25", 1' opening. Reddish bowl from San Juan county, UT 1x2.5". Bowl wi...

4 small Southwest jars. Red with incised neck band, Mogollon, New Mexico c, 1000 AD, 3.5x3.25", 2 lip chips, 3 pressure cracks. Red small Olla,...

Southwest clay pot with 2 small handles, 4x5.25", no apparent cracks. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance: Gary Brack...

Southwestern Pottery by Hayes and Blom. Turquoise Mexican mat 19x39". Frog fetish 3.25x2.5". Oversize stone animal fetish 4x6.5". Sma...

2 handle clay pot. Appears to have some profession repairs and presents well. 3.5x6.75". Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Prov...

Paiute basket made from dried gourd with a woven pine needle top. 3 turquoise colored beads hanging below pine needles. Signed on bottom D. Clark &#...

Woven willow baby basket from the Northern Paiute Tribe of Northern Nevada. Outer frame and bracing are made from a bent chokecherry branch with tradi

Antique Apache burden basket, c. 1870's. Native brain tanned skin with willow and split willow construction. 15x16". Top rail has several s...

Nice woven basket, probably Pima in origin. 4x9". Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

Shoshone baby basket with heavy back material, overall basketry is crude. Shade pattern consistent with a baby girl. Made with commercial material and

Cradle board from an Apache tribe, post-WWII construction, c1940s-1960s. Bent hardwood branches make the outer frame with hand-cut hardwood slats for

Wooden cradle board from a Great Plains tribe made with a simple frame of four pieces of sawn lumber stitched together with 3mm, multi-ply cotton rope

Wooden cradle board from the Navajo tribe made from five pieces of traditionally carved cedar(?) joined together by commercially tanned leather ties.

Nice Ute cradle board with wire, beads, willow and solid wood board. Beaded brow and belt, and a pair of small beaded moccasins. Purchased originally

Shoshone baby basket, possibly unused. 4 vertical support sticks on back under the covering. Made from used commercially made material except the will

Babyboard with bamboo sides, light twining material on hood/shade, perhaps nylon string. Willow weaving material on back. Smoke buckskin covering. Bro

Nice Navajo baby board with white buckskin, wire, willow and beaded brow and belt. Unused condition. 10.5x36x16". Date: Country (if not USA)...

Beaded cradle board cover. Indian-tanned buckskin base for head covering is fully beaded in 12/0 lazy stitch, cotton trade cloth flannel for the wrap.

Pre-1880 rawhide sheath with three color glass beadwork (green, red, and yellow). Hand sewn with sinew. Based on the construction and geometric design

Old figural hand carved smoking pipe marked Saline Co. Ark on bottom. 2 sides have figural lizards, 2.75x10x2.25". Several chips, sold as is. ...

This peace pipe is tipped with a red pipestone (catlinite) mouthpiece. Overall length is 25 in. It is three faceted with a curvature top. Lightly oi

This peace pipe or calumet is 21 in. long with an alabaster mouthpiece. It has a deerskin beaded wrap near the mouthpiece covered in red, orange, yell

This peace pipe is made of a hardwood and is 17 in. long. It is oval shaped and rounded at the mouthpiece. Lightly oiled finish. Made on the Sioux Res

This handmade peace pipe is 21.5 in. in length with a six facetted shape, tapered slightly from end to end. Lightly oiled finish. Made on the Sioux re

This peace pipe is 20 in. with a slight bow, hardwood, and a light oil finish. It is oval shaped without a separate mouthpiece. Made on the Sioux rese

This peace pipe is 19.5 in. in length of a straight grained hardwood. It has six facets lightly sanded edges. A turned end at the mouthpiece and a lig

This peace pipe is 19 in. in length with six facets and turned ends. There are two bands of deerskin wraps with seed beads. A chevron pattern in beads

This peace pipe is 13.5 in. in length and lathe turned. Finished with a tapered end for the pipestone and an oval shape for a mouthpiece. A carry case

This is a peace pipe owned by Walking Bull, Sioux. At 23.5 in. with six facets. Made of a straight grained hardwood. Made on the Sioux reservation.

This pipe bag is made of elk hide at 17 in. with fringe at 25 in. in length. It is covered in quillwork in the Medicine Wheel Crow pattern. The backsi

Paiute tobacco pipe with 23" wood stem and 4x4" red stone bowl. Bowl has some wear marks. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: ...

This pipestone is of catlinite, mined in Minnesota. It measures 3.5 in. X 4.75 in. X 1 in. with four silver painted bands representing the four winds.

This pipestone is of catlinite mined in Minnesota. It is carved with straight edges. It is legend that warring tribes found common ground when mining

This pipestone bowl is of soapstone at 4 in. X 3 in. X 1 in. It is gray in color and shaped in an"L". Date: Country (if not USA): St...

Beaded buckskin pipe bag, 24 inches long plus 17 inches of buckskin fringe. Top 18 inches of the bag is only beaded on the top edge, then it is bare b

Beaded leather pipe bag with 9-inch lazy-stitch beaded section and 10-inch long commercially tanned, machine cut, leather fringe. Bag section is India

Buckskin pipe bag ornamented with beadwork and quill-wrapped leather fringe, c1890s. Bag portion is 17 x 8 inches with lazy stitch 12/0 beadwork on th

Split cowhide leather bag or purse, roughly pentagonal shape, with small plastic pearl ornaments and strings of brown, turquoise, and white beads. 11

Small utility bag, possibly a "strike-a-light." It is made of Indian-tanned buckskin on the front and rawhide on the back. The front is la...