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Bob Coronato
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We are always interested in buying single items or entire collections.We have a Frontier Museum in the Black Hills near Devils Tower. We are always looking for American Indian Beadwork, Weapons, Clothing, Indian related items, Cowboy and Indian Wars items, to add to the collection.
Any Cowboy or early frontier items.
We are also interested in buying Western and Indian Paintings, as well as Landscape Paintings, Sketches, Pencils, Pen and Ink Drawings, Etchings, Paintings of Western or Indian related subjects.
Please contact us for a discreet and professional evaluation of the art and western collectibles you are giving consideration to selling. If you have a collection of western collectibles, we certainly are willing to travel to you and pay cash.
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Carl Oscaar Borg
Charles Russell C.M.Russell
Charles Schreyvogel
E.S. Paxson
E. W. Gollings
Edgar Payne
Frank Tenney Johnson
Frederick remington
Gutzon Borglum
Joe Beeler
Joseph Sharp J.H. Sharp
Joe De Yong
Maynard Dixon
N.C. Wyeth
Olaf Wieghorst
O.C. Seltzer
R. Farrington Elwell
William Leigh
Will James
William Standing
W.H.D. Koerner
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New Video Pittura Di Strati
Being an intaglio print maker and an oil painter for many years, I have been working on combining the two mediums for nearly 8 years. The Pittura di strati medium of silkscreen, oil and acrylic, is the only way to achieve the effect that I was looking for.Short Video on Pittura Di Strati
C.M. RUSSELL MUSEUM AUCTION 2012
**Photographed above is Bob Coronato s piece being auctioned off at the Charles M. Russell Sale and Benefit Auction Sat. March 17th, 2012.**
March 16-19, 2012 was the annual C.M. Russell Sale and Benefit Auction for the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls Montana. Coronatos piece this year is his Pittura Di Strati original mixed media, used for the 2011 Belle Fourche, South Dakota Round Up Rodeo. The rodeo poster piece sold for above auction estimates with the hammer price included.
(Below is clipped from an article written about this years auction in The Great Falls Tribune. Written by Richard Ecke)
"All eyes were on The Russell: the Sale to Benefit the C.M. Russell Museum live auction Saturday night to see if three original Charlie Russell watercolors would sell for $200,000 or more each.
All three did. Two Russells, "Waiting for Her Brave's Return" and "Roping a Steer," each fetched a price of $375,000, while a third Russell watercolor, "Indian on Horseback," received a high bid of $300,000 during the auction at the Heritage Inn. Combined, those three Russells produced winning bids of more than $1 million.
The Great Falls museum that bears Russell's name benefited from the sale of his works Saturday night, and officials were downright cheerful after the buying frenzy, which often was punctuated with cheers.
"This is going phenomenal," said Channing Hartelius, secretary of the Russell Museum's board of directors.
Bidders also went wild for other Russell originals. "The Bucker," part of a group of Renner family estate offerings that also included one of the $375,000 pieces, sold for $60,000. Then the buyer agreed to donate the watercolor to the Russell Museum, board Chairman Joe A. Masterson said.
In addition, a watercolor and pen-and-ink called "Center-Fire Man on a Bronc," estimated to sell for up to $45,000, instead went for a whopping $170,000 to the Smith's Fork Land & Cattle Co. of Robertson in southwest Wyoming. Other buyers of big Russell pieces declined to be named.
"It was absolutely a wonderful tribute to (Russell expert) Ginger (Renner)," Masterson said of the sale of the Renner estate pieces. "A Bunch of Riders," a pen and ink also among the Renner items, sold for $100,000 — double the pre-auction estimate.
Gross sales from Saturday night's nonprofit museum auction were in the $2.75 million range. This preliminary auction total does not include the 10 to 13 percent buyer's premium, which should push the total over $3 million.
The Paddle Raise for Education netted $150,000, 100 percent of which goes to Russell education efforts.
It was hard to find anything to be disappointed about during the Saturday night money-maker for the museum — and officials were beaming, even if they were exhausted by all the preparations and the hectic nature of the event.
"The market's up," auctioneer Troy Black said at the beginning of the night. "There's a good buzz in town."
He was right.
New Painting November 2010
Oil On Canvas
Size 16 3/4 X 34 3/8
Artist Bob Coronato 2010
Title "An unhurried sense of time,... is in itself a form of wealth"
Back in the early 1990's I was working on the IPY ranch in North East Wyoming just outside Devils Tower national Monument. I was sleeping above the "Stockman" mercantile and saddlery in Hulett and had a small studio upstairs. I would get up, grab my rig and drag it down the worn out old wood stairs, and throw it in the back of my outfit. It was cold, dark and the little town of 429 people was completely still. As my frosty breath steamed up my windows, I would drive out to the ranch around 4:30 am.
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Even the saltiest and weathered old time hands had to take pause and enjoy this moment of beauty that made today, one of the good 'ol days of tomorrow.
Bob Coronato 2010
The new painting by Bob Coronato will be shown at the November show at Settlers West in Tucson Arizona.
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The Great American West - November 20, 2010
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Settlers West Gallery announces its annual Great American West exhibition on Saturday, November 20, 2010. Howard Terpning, William Acheff, Ken Carlson and Francois Koch are among the 58 outstanding artists exhibiting new paintings and sculptures in what is widely regarded as the Southwest's premier fine art showcase
| For more than 35 years Settlers West Gallery has specialized in showcasing only the finest in Western and Wildlife art. Our fine art gallery in Tucson, Arizona is host to many of the world's premier artists. Our shows feature works by Howard Terpning, Daniel Smith, George, Molnar, Robert Griffing, Francois Koch, William Acheff, John Fawcett, Michael Stack and many more of today's masters. |
New Article About Artwork by Bob Coronato
New article from The Bozeman Magpie
Recently an article came out in The Bozeman Magpie about my work.You can read more about the article in the press section of the web site.
Rapid City Journal Aug 18 2011
Activist Russell Means fighting esophageal cancer
PORCUPINE – Russell Means has looked death in the face before.
The former American Indian Movement leader counts nine assassination attempts on his life. He has survived danger, violence and numerous encounters with mortality -- from the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation to guerilla wars in Nicaragua -- in what he calls his “72 winters” of life.
But these days, the fiery 71-year-old activist turned actor is fighting a new and deadly foe with a different face: cancer of the throat -- or esophageal cancer -- that has spread to his tongue, lungs and lymph nodes. Doctors told Means last month that the cancer is too advanced for surgery.
Even if surgery had been an option, he would not have chosen it, Means said, since it meant removing his tongue and losing the ability to speak.
There are, he says, some things worse than death. Russell Means without the ability to voice his opinion may be one of them, he said.
He dismissed other treatments offered by mainstream medicine as well -- heavy doses of radiation and chemotherapy that would also leave him unable to taste, speak or swallow normally.
“I’m not going to hang on to life under those conditions. No way am I going to hang on for that,” he said during a recent interview in the front yard of his ranch home near Porcupine. Those medical realities along, with other side effects -- being fed through a tube and being confined to a wheelchair by extreme fatigue -- were “unacceptable options,” he said. “To me, either way that’s a death sentence, or at least a torture sentence.”
One month after his dire diagnosis at a University of California medical center on July 18, Means is turning to the indigenous medicines and spiritual healing ceremonies found throughout the North American Native American culture -- the same culture that he has spent a lifetime trying to preserve.
Means said he will battle the disease with traditional Native remedies. Herbal teas and other plants with cancer-fighting properties have come to him from tribes as far away as Guadalajara, Mexico, and as close as the Ojibwe tribe in Minnesota. He is also receiving cancer treatments that are approved in Europe and Canada but not in the United States at an alternative cancer center in Scottsdale, Ariz.
The charismatic and controversial Means never shrank from a political fight, but he is taking a philosophical approach to the grim news about his health. He knows his prognosis isn’t good, and he has made his peace with that.
“I’m not going to argue with the Great Mystery,” he said. “Lakota belief is that death is a change of worlds. And I believe like my dad believed. When it’s my time to go, it’s my time to go.”
The toll the cancer has taken on his body is evident in his speech, which is increasingly subdued and more difficult to understand. The man who drew media attention around the world and Hollywood acclaim for his role in the film version of “The Last of the Mohicans,” has been replaced by a shorter, slighter man who struggles to keep weight on.
Gone, too, are the signature braids that hung in parallel tracks down his chest and marked Means as a modern-day Lakota warrior, who is loved by many and vilified by others. But in every media photograph taken of him since he and Dennis Banks burst onto the national scene as the public face of AIM back in the 1970s, the braids are there.
The Lakota believe that hair holds memories. People in mourning often cut their hair as a way to release those memories and the people in them to the spirit world. Means cut his braids off shortly before he knew he had cancer, as a symbolic gesture to show that he was in mourning for his people.
“That’s the first irony here. I cut it because my people are dying -- they’re dying as a culturally distinct people,” he said.
But whether his hair is worn in long straight braids or short, curly and covered -- as it is on a recent sunny afternoon in a stylish straw fedora -- one thing has not changed in Russell Means’ world. His devotion to his causes and his passion in promoting them is in no way diminished.
Means doesn’t hesitate when asked what the most important accomplishment of his life has been: The founding of the Republic of Lakotah, he says, and the “re-establishment of our freedom to be responsible” as a sovereign nation inside the borders of the United States. His efforts to have his proposed country recognized by the international community continue at the United Nations, he said, even as it is ignored by tribal governments closer to home, including his own Oglala Sioux Tribe.
“I live in the belly of the beast,” Means says, midway through one of his enthusiastic political polemics about the economic, moral and constitutional collapse of the United States.
Always a polarizing presence for the U.S. government, Means plans to remain so, perhaps even after his death.
“I’ve told people after I die, I’m coming back as lightning,” he said. “When it zaps the White House, they’ll know it’s me.”
As part of his vision to create Lakotah, Means started the Treaty School, an immersion-language school for young children in a three-story prototype of an oversized Lakota tipi on his property. The structure remains unfinished, and the school never grew beyond a handful of students.
“Because of our poverty, that ultimately failed,” he said.
People couldn’t afford gas to bring their children to school, much less tuition, he said.
“We’re losing our language, and nobody cares,” he said of a cultural reality that he sees as the biggest disappointment of his life.
His advocacy and acting have taken him to every continent except Antarctica -- a place he has no interest in seeing, he said, despite his love of South Dakota’s winter weather.
“A South Dakota winter is my favorite season,” he said. “My people are energized in the winter. I am energized by it. You have to be to go out in it.”
Now, he said, he’s content to enjoy his home on the Pine Ridge Reservation. It sits at the end of a deeply rutted dirt road outside the village of Porcupine, just a few miles from the site of the Wounded Knee occupation, where his reputation as a law-breaking champion for Native American treaties and indigenous people’s rights was cemented.
He bought the acreage 11 years ago with money earned mostly from an acting career that included more than 30 films and television appearances. He shares it with his wife of 12 years, Pearl, 15 or 20 horses and an abundance of wildlife.
“It’s beautiful, as you can see. Very peaceful. This place is a game refuge,” he said.
After rumors of his health problems surfaced on the social network site Facebook, Means opted to confirm the reports in a video that has been posted to YouTube. Response to that video has been overwhelming, he said, as people call or email from all over the world to tell him they are praying for him.
“So, if I kick cancer, it’s going to be because of prayers and indigenous medicines -- and some German/Canadian alternative treatments,” he said.
One of those prayers comes from his old friend and fellow AIM member Dennis Banks.
“He just called me. We’re going to get together in a couple of weeks,” he said.
Means suspects his detractors and critics, of whom there are plenty both on and off the reservation, will “rejoice” at news of his health problems.
Criticized by some of his fellow Native Americans for self-promotion, he is viewed with disdain by many law enforcement agents and others for the violence that often followed his protests.
He hasn’t bothered to write his own epitaph, and he doesn’t care what people say about him.
“If I cared what people said about me, I wouldn’t be who I am,” he said.
He chuckles, though, recalling a Los Angeles Times story that described him as “the most famous Indian since Sitting Bull or Crazy Horse.”
“I thought Jim Thorpe was,” he said with a grin. “Jim Thorpe was my hero.”
Russell Means: A look back
1970s
Becomes a national media spokesman for the fledgling American Indian Movement by confronting costumed Pilgrims during a Thanksgiving re-enactment in Plymouth, Mass.
Organizes a protest rally in Gordon, Neb., over the death of Raymond Yellow Thunder, which resulted in manslaughter indictments against two men.
Is arrested along with 80 other people in the 1973 Custer County Courthouse riot, eventually serving one month in jail for his role in it.
Organizes the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation with Dennis Banks and Leonard Peltier, a 10-week siege which made AIM a household word in America. A judge dismisses federal charges against him during a lengthy trial.
Is acquitted of murder charges in the 1975 death of a man in a barroom brawl.
Loses a close election for the presidency of the Oglala Sioux Tribe to Dick Wilson.
1980s
Joins a U.S.-backed indigenous tribe in Nicaragua in its war against the communist Sandinista government, causing Means to quip, “I fought the capitalists and I fought the communists.”
1990s
Launches a successful acting career with his role in “The Last of the Mohicans,” eventually appearing in at least 32 movies and television shows, including Disney’s “Pocohontas” and Oliver Stone’s “Natural Born Killers,” as well as “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”
Publishes his autobiography, “Where White Men Fear to Tread.”
Releases two albums of original music.
2000s
Ran unsuccessfully for president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, losing to Theresa Two Bulls.
Launched the Republic of Lakotah, an attempt to reassert the original land claims of the sovereign Sioux Nation by withdrawing from the 1851 and 1868 treaties with the United States.
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Russell Means
Lakota name: Oyate Wacinyapi "Works for the people"
"An upside down flag is an international signal of distress... now we, the Indian nations, are in distress. I will wear this flag upside down as long as my people are in distress!" R. Means
by Bob Coronato
size 36 5/8 74 1/4
Oil on Canvas
I have been researching and planning this painting for over 10 years. I First heard about Russell Means when I moved into the Black Hills and learned how much controversy there was around him in the "Hills". There were some that viewed him negatively and there were those that held him as a hero. I wanted to learn more for myself because it was a dramatic chapter in the history of the west that took place in my lifetime. With the rise of AIM, the American Indian movement, was critical in changing the lives of many. The armed Siege of Wounded Knee in 1973, was truly the last of the Indian Wars, and Russell and several hundred others along with him, fought the Government in a armed stand off, prepared to die as free people, just as there ancestors had.
I was inspired 15 years ago by my best friend, and artist Tom Waugh, who talked about Russell Means, Dennis Banks, The yellow Thunder case and all the different American Indian Movement activities. Tom was closely related to that time because he was married at the time to a woman that was Sioux and involved with AIM, and he was the chief of police at Hot Springs at the time of AIMs rise. He had valuable insights into both sides of the conflicts, and protests. Tom was First law enforcement on the scene of the federal Agents murder, and fired upon at Jumping Bulls Camp. Tom boxed, partied, and lived with AIM members and others that were closely related to the people involved with wounded knee 2. This first hand resource was inspiring to me, and He encouraged me to follow my heart, research the subject and paint about that time. As I traveled with him through different saloons in the Black Hills, heard the stories, met the people involved, I wanted to record in paint some of the leaders of this movement.
I began to research in-depth the entire AIM movement, I really wanted to meet Russell Means and paint his portrait. I didn't want to paint him as an "Pop Icon" like Andy Warhol, but as a revolutionary and important leader of his people, in a traditionl portrait.
Tom and I have an American Indian Museum in Hulett Wyoming, and we started a section in our museum dedicated to AIM. As I searched out Artifacts from the time, and followed the path to finding things from the Wounded Knee takeover in 1973, I met and talked to lots of the individuals involved on both the Feds side and AIM. eventually AIM members came in to see it and shared there thoughts. It created quite a stir, and evoked many passionate conversations pro and con, depending on the person. This was very valuable in understanding the time, the struggle and what changes were made.
Russell Means as well as others in the movement, stood up for unfair racism, and abuses against Indians and made definitive stands against the tierney of the cops, government, racist judges and citizens who felt that Indians were second class. Meeting the people involved gave me a very clear view of how the events of the 70's and the American Indian Movement had a very deserved place in history of the West. Russell Means is one of a group of people who really changed the way American Indians are treated.
The Black Hills of SD/Wyo is the heart of the Lakota lands, their "sacred lands" and living there in a time that is only 100 + years after it was Indian only, gives me a very clear picture of what developments the last 100 years brought. Wounded knee in 1890, is memories of the grandparents of the people currently living on pine ridge. The stories and wounds are still felt. Even as an outsider, I run into people that share stories and have strong feelings about the entire mishandling of the Indian People.
I was very persistent, and passionate about researching and digging for info, even going to remote places in the Hills to find people involved, meet with anyone that had an opinion about what transpired and even getting my nose broke around 2008. I remember one time in 2007 breaking a guys nose in the Ponderosa Saloon because I was talking to some people about AIM and how I was very excited because I just found a 30-30 carbine used at wounded knee 1973 and how I would incorporate it in a painting. I bought the gun from a family member of the owners of the wounded knee trading post that got burned down buy AIM, and I dug it out of a trunk, in a old barn, still with the FBI tags on it from the court case. Apparently the subject is still touchy and some cowboy didn't think it was something to paint about and away we went.
If Russell was not completely appreciated in this era because the fresh feelings of those hurt by the armed rise of AIM, surely, history would hold him in high regard.
I finally tracked down Russell and shared in an e mail my desire to paint him in a traditional manner as a important historical figure. It took several years, but eventually I got an invite to come to his house and prepare for a portrait. I had to drive to his house on Pine Ridge. We talked for a few hours about politics, reservation life, and what kind of thoughts that I had for the portrait. Russell seemed worried that I wanted to put him in a war bonnet and paint him as if he was living 100 years ago. I explained how I would use imagery that was very specific to "his time." He said to me "Im a late 20th century Indian" and "that's how I want to be portrayed." I was on the same page, and incorporated the traditional vest, hair pipe choker and the watch as the description of his time. Russell grew up in a time when as a kid, they still used horse and wagons on the reservation, (he was born 1939) elders who remembered the old ways were still alive, and he had seen tremendous change from the time of the elders, to the current. He was sending a tweet out on his twitter page as we talked. He is in a Limbo of those that grew up in a time where few traditional practices were left because of the governments attempts to squelch a people and a time where some had the desire to return to the some more traditional ways. The watch and tee shirt describe how Indians are not the idea of old Hollywood westerns or to be thought of as "in the past" but a people very much of today, and with a rich history.
The L.A. Times referred to Russell Means as the most important American Indian since Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull. If your not familiar with all the things he helped change along with the other members of AIM, I highly recommend his Autobiography Where White men fear to tread. He inspired and lead people to stand up be proud to be Indian, and fought for the rights of All Indian people. After years of fighting the uphill battle of many of the injustices, and failures of the U.S. government, AIM made some strong headway to improving how Indian people are treated today. His Life is one of sacrifice, giving up freedom, personal relationships, family and selflessly fight for the rights of Indian people. although the situation still needs to be improved His efforts have had great impact for posative change.
In 1972 in Gordon Nebraska, Russell remembered how in high school he had done a report that described how the upside down flag was used by the navy as a distress signal, and in a AIM protest he decided to wear it and hang all the flags in town upside down, as AIM went there to protest the miss-handleing of the murder of an Indian, where the police were going to mearly slap the wrist of the white boy that killed him. This upside down flag left such an impression it soon became a symbol of AIM and was used everywhere they went. I said to Russell "you got approached by a woman that thought it was anti government and you explained how it was a signal of distress and that your people were in distress" I asked how he felt today.....
He looked out the window of his house at Porcupine and with a saddend voice said, "my people are still suffering." I asked if he would wear the flag for the portrait, and he agreed.
The failures of the US government have not been fully addressed or repaired, but Aim, Russell means, Dennis Banks, Clyde Bellecourt and many others started many policy's that have lead to more freedoms and sovereignty for Indian nations around the country. AIM demanded that the Us government honor, and live up to its own laws, treaties and agreements with its people.
The ideas of AIM were critical in changing the oppressive ways that were excepted in the early 1900's up until the 1970's. Russell and Aim fought then and he fights today for the government to allow the Indian people to be "free and independant, free to be responsible"
In the words of Chief Joseph, the credo of the American Indian Movement and words held dear to Russell Means,... Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade were I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk , think and act for myself--- and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.
It was a highlight in my life to meet, become friends with and paint one of a few revolutionaries in US history. A true icon and leader Russell means is a person that history will hold in high regard.
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Bob Coronato
2011 Rodeo Posters Available 20.00 ea.
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History:
Black Hills Roundup Rodeo
The Roundup is one of the oldest continuously held outdoor rodeos in America. For five exciting days surrounding the July 4th holiday weekend, thousands of regional residents, and people from across the country and abroad, come to Belle Fourche South Dakota to celebrate. Tickets and reserved seating are available through the Belle Fourche Chamber of Commerce. Top ranked cowboys and cowgirls perform in the many events including barrel racing, bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, steer wrestling, bull riding, team roping and more. This year is 92nd Annual Black Hills Roundup PRCA Rodeo.
Rare Jim Bridger Tintype Discovered
I recently was out running around looking for Mantiques,... and found this great old tintype of a frontiersman, that looked familiar to me. On the reverse it was written Laramie Wyo, so I took it to the master,...google, and I looked up images of early important people to wyomings history.
I could not believe it, it was Jim Bridger.
There are very few examples of photos of Jim Bridger, to date there are but four.
I compared the eyes, tip of the nose and the creases on the face, using an overlay, and they matched up exact. I will have the photo on display in the museum for anyone to visit.
James "Jim" Bridger (b. March 17, 1804 in richmond Va. – d. July 17, 1881 south side Kansas City /missourri) was among the foremost mountain men, trappers, scouts and guides who explored and trapped the Western United States during the decades of 1820-1850, as well as mediating between native tribes and encroaching whites. He was of English ancestry, and his family had been in North America since the early colonial period.
Jim Bridger had a strong constitution that allowed him to survive the extreme conditions he encountered walking the Rocky Mountains from what would become southern Colorado to the Canadian border. He had conversational knowledge of French, Spanish and several native languages. He would come to know many of the major figures of the early west, including Brigham Young, Kit Carson, George Armstrong Custer, John Fremont, Joseph meek, and John sutter.
Jim Bridger was well known during his life and after-wards as a teller of tall tales. Some of Bridger's stories—about the geysers at Yellowstone, for example—proved to be true. Others were clearly intended to amuse. Thus, one of Bridger's stories involved a "petrified forest" in which there were "petrified birds" singing "petrified songs" (though he may have seen the petrified trees in the Tower Junction area of what is now Yellowstone National Park). Over the years, Bridger became so associated with the tall-tale form that many stories invented by others were attributed to him.
Supposedly one of Bridger's favorite yarns to tell to greenhorns was about being pursued by one hundred Cheyenne warriors. After being chased for several miles, Bridger found himself at the end of a box canyon, with the Indians bearing down on him. At this point, Bridger would go silent, prompting his listener to ask, "What happened then, Mr. Bridger?" Bridger would reply, "They killed me."
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Recently Sold Items
Some really great items were recently sold off from the Devils Tower Museum.
Devils Tower Museum is part of Rogues Gallery and every now and then, the Museum sells items off items to acuire new items for the following years display.
We found an early pair of Apache Moccasins, a Blackfeet tobacco bag, A real nice Antique Plains Indian Ash recurve bow and other great relics. The best piece was a pretty rare antique Northwest Coast figure. I am always going through Atique stores every free chance I get, its how I get out of the studio.
Southern Plains Peyote Rattle ca 1910
Acoma Olla
This piece would look great hanging on a wall next to your Western Americana collection or Western Art collection. Antique cowboy bits and antique cowboy spurs add a great dimention to a western art collection.
Silver Engraved MARKED Fleming Bit
Mint ca. 1940 - 1955 Crockett Spurs
A mint pair of vintage Crockett Spurs from the 1940's or early 50's. Also recently sold was an early Navajo Buffalo Hide Rattle.
This is a rare example of the 1700's style Indian brass trade kettles that were traded during the Fur Trade Era. The kettle has a square handle and riveted iron strap that is had forged. The Brass trade Kettles that came out later were marked American Brass Kettle Co. and W hayden. These were traded to the American Indians in the 1850 - 1860's. This trade kettle with the Mark of the Hudson Bay Trading Co. is very rare and hard to find. Kettles like this were traded to the Native Americans for cooking and gathering water. Looks great in a house with a collection of Western Americana.
Early trade goods like this are seen in paintings by Frederic Remington and Charles Russell.
Rare MARKED Hudson Bay Trade Kettle ca. 1700's
This Antique Plains Indian Pipe came from Lamers Trading Post in Hardin Montana. It most likely is Crow but since American Indians are known for trading , It could have come from the Cheyenne or other Northern Plains nations. The Antique Indian pipe stem has nice file brands marking the sides and a great patina overall.
Norther Plains Pipe (Montana)
Antique Indian Beadwork from the Indian wars period is rare and prized by collectors.
Apache Moccasins ca. 1860
1890's- 1910.
GREAT PATINA! Zuni Pottery Owl! This has been Pit Fired. It has the very old red black and white polychrome paint. The black has lightened to a dark chocolate brown from age. It's in Great condition for it's age no damage to speak of, just typical wear for something this age. The pot does have some age crazing in the paint typical of earlier American Indian pots.
Size is 6" tall by 6" across wing to wing.
ca. 1890 - 1910 Zuni Polychrome Owl Pot
This piece dates ca. 1890 - 1910
This antique Native American pottery ( isleta Pueblo) olla is small only about 3 inches tall, but is artistically very well designed with the cross motif.
Isleta Pueblo Olla ca. 1890 - 1910
Violins were introduced to the Tarahumara by the Spanish missionaries in the 1600's. Since then, the Tarahumara have been hand carving these instruments. A talented Tarahumara musician is believed capable of communicating with divine beings and able to request good fortune from them.
Size of violin is 2 feet tall x 9 inces at widest part. The bow is 26 inches long. GREAT PATINA!!!
Antique American Indian Hand Carved Violin Tarahumara
The Navajo rattle dates prior to 1900 and shows great wear and patina. A fine example of an incised rattle. The lightning or power symbol is incised into the hide. Red and green vermillion paint show age cracks and oxidation.
Navajo Buffalo Hide Rattle
The antique silver engraved cheek pieces are 8 1/2 inches. Mouth is about 5 inches. Copper roller
Split ear headstall, reins & rein chains, it's all there! Great Condition!
great piece of antique Western Americana.
Recently Sold
Nootka Model Canoe ca 1890- 1910
by Lawrence Thimme.
Thimme left Dawson for Fairbanks in 1905. After the Alaska Gold Rush he created works of art celebrating Alaska history.
Images of Alaska through Historic Pyrography:
"Pyrography has a long history as a decorative technique outside the United States and became a popular hobby in America in the early 1900s with the availability of pyrographic kits and materials. Alaskans adapted the technique ... [to burn] images onto moose hide and birch bark. They used pyrography to decorate personal and household items, create vacation mementos, illustrate Alaskan scenes, commemorate events, and honor organizations. Fairbanks residents have made and displayed pyrography in [their] homes and around the community since the turn of the last century."
Original art from the Alaska Klondike.
Art of the Alaska Klondike
2" 1/2 tall by 2" wide
Plains Indian Catlinite Pipe bowl ca. 1890 - 1900
great old west decorator item.
Antique Primitive Burl Hand Carved Wood Bowl
The image size is 5 1/2 x 4 1/2.
20.00 for the poster and 50.00 for a limited number signed.
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Our museum recently purchased a cut down Indian gun with ties to the Battle of The Little Big Horn. I am sending the gun off to be tested for ballistics, against know cartridges found at the battle. The model 1863 50-70 cal. sat in a saloon for nearly 25 years and was then in private hands for nearly another 20 some years. The story is that it was at the Battle of Little Big horn and the Cheyenne woman who had it said it was a family heirloom. After many years in the bar, a collector finally talked her out of it and it has been in only two collections since. Many guns have the "story" of being from Custer battle, but very few have proven ballistacally to have been there. It will be exciting to here back about it.
Hulett Wyoming Map
hulett has about 50,000 visitors during the Sturgis Bike week every August.
