Wigwam Auction--March 2019

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Gorgeous contemporary small beaded bottle. Not a bead amiss! 3.5" purple, turquoise, white, lavender beads. Paper scroll inside bottle. Date:...

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These items have been voluntarily removed for cultural and historic preservation in cooperation with, and under guidance of the Bureau of Indian Affai

This specimen mount box 12 in. X 16 in. contains 22 pieces of projectile points, a scraper, and a drill. The bird points are a smoky obsidian circling

42 bird points, arrowheads, & small scrapers, mostly obsidian, some chert. There are Martis Series, Humboldt concave Base A, & 1 white bird ...

13 Points in this shadow box includes obsidian & chert. 1 of the obvious points that is beautifully cut is from the Great Basin Large Stem, appr...

20 pieces of obsidian, quartz, agate. Ryker mount. There is 1 knife in this presentation maybe used for cutting hides of small animals. This knife mea

The set includes 2 cuffs, a belt, and a head band. Beautiful beadwork using white background beads with red and black accent designs. Belt is approx.

Approx. 20 drills, arrowheads, a bone awl, & a beautiful & rare scraper with unusual color made from quartz 3.5" x 2.5". Ryker mou...

Set of 5 handmade birch bark canoes of different sizes with 4 paddles. Sizes ranging from 22.5" L; 17.25"L; 14.5"L ; 7.5"L; 12&q...

Approx. 37 pieces in this display. Contains scrapers from the Martis Series, points from the Elko Series; some are Northern Side Notched; 1 very small

Approx. 50 pieces in this lot, mainly obsidian, chert, 1 bone, & most importantly is a clear quartz that is called singing quartz rock that was ...

Approx. 20 pieces in this collection. Blue trade beads, assorted buttons, obsidian points. Petrified wood, point from Elko Series, Semi petrified cent

Shadow box of approx. 35 pieces. This includes bird points from the Desert Series (approx. 1000 years old), several drills of obsidian, chert, several

Approx 20 pieces. Handmade fish hook; bone needles, obsidian scrapers. Notched point arrowheads, from Northern Side Notched, several Humboldt Concave

15.5 x 15.5 x 8" body with grinding stone. Gray-brown latite. About 50 pounds. Date: City/County: State: Nevada

This is one intriguing specimen mount box of 13 points. A beautiful arrangement of obsidian, carnelian, pink quartz, and red chert. This collection c

This is a very intriguing collection of Great Basin projectile points, knives, tools, and a basket fragment. It includes bird point to medium game siz

Lot includes tools--scrapers, sinkers, ax heads, cobbles, drill, and projectile points of chert, granite, slate, quartz and more. This group cantains

Approx. 30 pieces includes: an Awl, a knife, a choice piece of Mississippi Agate, possibly traded (?), several tiny bird points made from obsidian, th

Approx. 40 pieces in this presentation. This includes 3 modern glass arrowheads purple, amber & green color. Petrified wood, agate & more. T...

9 large points and a scraper. Obsidian & chert. 2-4.75". Frame 15x19". The 1 stone in the middle of this shadow box is very crudely ma...

Lot withdrawn. Please see Lot 3407

This framed, approximate 24 x 40" collection of seventeen large projectile points with a printed poster showing the points, sizes, and location...

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Beautiful scraper made from obsidian. 5.5" length x 2.5" width. This is a lot of 22 pieces that include bird points, agate bird points, ch...

Paiute beaded pair of salt shakers and bottle (7") made by Velda Smith, Nixon, Nevada, 1992. Signed on bottom of bottle. Diagonal patterns. Da...

Bone with metal blade 13", bone 14.5". Wood 21" Date: City/County: State: Nevada

Paiute decoy duck and mat. Duck about 13" long, may about 10 x 14". signed on bottom: Steve Allely, 1995. In the style of the George famil...

Older style modern decoy duck, Paiute. Possibly Ivan or Jimmy George. Unsigned. Attribution ND. This style duck was made before the ancient decoys fro

Wood handle and stitched skin rattle by Burton Pete (1941-2018), who was born to Mamie Kaye Nez and George Pete on January 11, 1941 in Schurz, Nevada.

Beautiful presentation of 60 points. There is white quartz included in this lot. It is from Battle Mountain. White quartz is considered sacred to anc

Shell, bone, obsidian, quartz, chert & carnelian. Humboldt Basal Notched; Martis Series; & Elko Series. Some of the smaller points appear to...

Beautiful presentation of 100 points, bone awls, some are quartz, there is turquoise, obsidian, chert knives, carnelian. There is 1 piece of turquois

Obsidian, chert knives, Humboldt Basal Notched, approx. 4000 BC. Date: cBC City/County: State: Nevada

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Obsidian, chert, sandstone, bird points & scrapers. White points from Battle Mountain, (Sacred Site) Shoshone Land, dosa wee "shite Knife&q...

A Ryker specimen mount 12" x 16" box with obsidian and chert projectile points and a scraper approx. 4.75" L x 3" w. There are ...

12" x 16" Ryker mount with tiny bird points made of obsidian, quartz. There is reed material, possibly from basket weaving(?) There is a f...

Approx. 25 points, drills, scrapers. Obsidian, quartz, chert. Ryker mount. Elko Series small points, Humboldt Concave Base A; Humboldt Basal Notched;

Approx 35 pieces in this collection. Includes agate, chert obsidian. This collection has a unique feature in that there is a "striped" arr...

Shadow box of approx. 35 pieces of artifacts containing arrowheads, drills, crescents, shell & more. There is a jasper crescent and a woman'...

Approx. 65 pieces in this Ryker box display. Most all of these are made from obsidian. Many of these are from the Martis Series approx. 2000 years old

Lot of 32 points, awls, & drills. Made from mostly obsidian & chert. Some from the Elko Series & Martis Series (approx. 1000 BC to 500 A...

Approx 50 pieces of obsidian points & awls, drills,& scrapers. There is a stone point in this Ryker mount. Lots of bird points. There are t...

Approx. 25 pieces in this Ryker Mount. Bone needle, obsidian, chalcedony, quartz & chert. Elko series points, Martis series, Pinto Series. There...

Very interesting display of a little of everything from cartridge cases to a very old crescent made from chert approx. 6000 BC. There is a very crudel

Approx. 50 pieces in this lot. Includes obsidian points made in the Humboldt Basal Notched style, the Gunther Series, the Desert Series & Pinto ...

This shadow box contains obsidian, chert, old Chinese beads (cobalt in color) & glass mission beads. This shadow box includes 2 necklaces of Chi...

Assorted lot of 6 Ryker Mounts that includes ancient partial baskets weaved from reeds from Northern Nevada. Bone tools, trade beads, obsidian scraper

37 pieces in this presentation. Obsidian, quartz, & chert. There are Elko Series, Desert Series, Surprise Valley, & Humboldt Concave Base B,...

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Approx. 40 pieces of chert, obsidian, shells, abalone, bone, quartz. The bones appear to be made into awls. They are from bird or rabbits. The abalone

Mostly obsidian, some chert. Approx. 40 pieces. Northern Side Notched, Martis Series & Gunther Series. Attributed to ND. From Northern Washoe Co...

This is a collection of 15 projectile points ranging from 1.5 in. to 3 in. in length from the Great Basin. There is only one obsidian point in this gr

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Ryker Box of approx. 25 pieces. Includes Great Basin Projectile Point (one that is pre-projective point culture) This is of very rough form. Possibly

Lot of 14 obsidian & chert scrapers & drills. The smallest is an obsidian drill measuring 2.25" x 1.25". The oldest is a pre-proj...

Approx. 36 points, spears & scrapers in this Ryker mount. Includes carnelian agate & large obsidian.This display includes a Clovis point app...

16 pieces in this presentation. Includes one broken off obsidian point, carnelian arrowhead, wood point sharpener. There is 1 old piece of wood that h

Approx 25 pieces in this shadow box display. Includes a Hasket approx. 10,000 years old, chert scrapers, a Humboldt Concave point; Bare Creek Eared ...

Consists of obsidian, chert & quartz. US coins (3) from 1861 & 1874 that have holes at top probably used to wear as pendant. There is a tra...

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Decorative tomahawk with ground obsidian ax head, leather bound to wood with studs, & horse hair. 19" L. Ax head is approx. 7.25"x 4.5...

Set 2 of drums, approx. 13" round x 11" Has had some use. Has wooden base. Has 1 knot in the wood at side of drum. The second drum is also...

Small beaded bottle, 2" tall; 2.5" beaded jar with butterfly lid. Peyote stitched. Description attributed to ND. This is from the historic...

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Basalt sinker, 8 x 6 x 5", carved center area for attachment. Basalt is filled with air bubbles. From The Great Basin Collection. Date: City...

2 adorable Cherokee made Teepees 8" tall. Birch bark canoe from WA State, stitches sides, center support has broken tie. 19" long Date: ...

Great Lakes area Native American snapping turtle rattle. 16.25" l. x 7.5" w. Date: City/County: Great Lakes State:

Pear shaped with depression on both sides 11x4.25". Dark stone 7x2.75" Date: City/County: State:

2 net weight stone with smooth bottoms. 10 and 12.5" stones Date: City/County: State:

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4 probable scrapers. Chert 5.25", brown 4.25", obsidian 4.5" on wood handle, 6.75" obsidian with skin wrapping. Date: City/Co...

Seven well made reproduction arrows by Steve Allely for Moe and Mary's Wigwam. 21 x 39" with seven intricately made arrows from Shoshone, M...

Made by Johnny Dunn, misidentified in the museum as by Katherine Northrup. 8" x .75". (per Johnny Dunn) Date: City/County: State:

Four inches long, two inches wide, an inch and a half tall rock arrow staightener. Date: City/County: State:

Ax Head attached to hard wood handle with leather & wrist band. Very old. 4" x 18". Date: early 1900's City/County: State:

Decorative piece made of deer antler and brown animal fur. It is beaded on the grip, with skin wrap on base. Looks to have been used and in good condi

This is a selection from the historic Wigwam collection of Fernley, Nevada in a 16 in. X 20 in. walnut frame. This frame contains approx. 60 pieces of

This is a selection from the historic Wigwam collection of Fernley, Nevada in a 16 in. X 20 in. walnut frame. There are approx. 27 pieces in this coll

This is an intriguing selection from the historic Wigwam collection of Fernley, Nevada. There are 20 drilled beads of blue glass, milk glass, and poss

The drill offers an ancient method of starting fire without matches or a lighter, a method that applies friction to generate heat. The heat eventually

Plains Indians Breastplate probably made sometime in the 1970’s. The actual breastplate area measures 10” wide by 16” in height. This piece is well co

5 cased items found by Moe Royels. Bead plus 1-4" items Date: City/County: State:

6x5" stone mortar with 3 top notches. Repaired crack near top. Date: City/County: State:

Peyote stitched over white jar. Zig zag pattern. 2.5x3.5". Description attributed to ND. This is from the historic Wigwam Collection. Date: ...

This specimen mount box 12 in. X 16 in. contains 21 points and tools. This is a unique collection of early projectile points mostly from the Pinto ser

This rock is 11 in. X 8 in. of viscous basalt that has been tooled both length-wise and cross-wise. A latitudinal line is cut deeply to hold a line or

Approx 24 points in frame. Obsidian and chert. Plaque on frame "In memory of Hazel Reed, Nov 11, 1911 - Jan 22, 1991, Native of New Mexico Ter...

This is a replica framing made by Robin Moore of Boseman, Montana. It has a rabbit fur quiver with 7 atl-atl arrows, projectile points with 3 sewing

Quiver with black bear fur, 4 red feathers and 5 conical shells. 3 stone point arrows. Nice presentation item. 28x9" Date: City/County: St...

Gourd shaker with handle. Images of a deer, sheep, 2 men and a bird. 12.5" tall Date: City/County: State:

Oval Great Basin matatte, probably granite. 7x4.5" Date: City/County: State:

This grinding stone or metate has Great Basin origin. It is 17 in. X 13 in. of viscous basalt and heavy. From the Wigwam collection. Date: City/Cou

This is a small rock that has been used as a grinding stone; roughly 6 in. X 6 in. It is of Great Basin origin and has been rounded by geologic time i

This flat grinding stone is roughly 12 in. X 15 in. and the flat pestle is roughly 4 in. in size. A beautiful specimen for display. Great Basin origin

This is a grinding stone metate and pestle of Great Basin origin 23 in. X 12 in. X 1.5 in. thick. The pestle is of viscous basalt and rounded from wea

9 mostly granite grinding stones. 3.5-5.5" Date: City/County: State: