American Indian Art Sold
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	aia1 - A Northwest Coast Chief's Wood Ceremonial Dance Rattle, probably Tlingit . This rattle has a stylized face with hooked beak and finely incised details on the underside of the compressed body. A totemic flying bird is carrying a typical shaman reclining on the wingspan. The tongue of the shaman is protruding and touching the tongue protruding from the mouth of a frog raised over his body. The frog is being held by a similar bird with exaggerated beak. Predominantly black and red. The overall length is 14 ¼"
	aia2 - An Apache polychrome coiled tray of flaring form. Woven in typical materials with a blackened circle in the basin with a zigzag pattern emanating from the basin to the rim and alternating checkered pattern. 16" in diameter and 4" tall
	aia3 - A Large San Ildefonso Polychrome Storage Jar. This piece has a concave base and graceful flaring sides and straight neck. The piece is painted over a creamy slip with black and red, a of frieze birds with striped patterns and tail feathers alternating with exaggerated flowers. A band of old cotton material forms a turn of the 20th century repair. The widest diameter is 14 ½" and the height is 11 ¾".
	aia7 - A Yokuts Polychrome Coiled Open Cooking Bowl with a small flat bottom and tall flaring sides. Finely woven in sedge, blackened bracken fern root and redbud. Decorated with a series of large scale serrated columns, each with upward and downward angles in contrasting colors. The columns are terminated at the top with a continuous line and a narrow band of groups of vertical slashes. 13 ½" in diameter and 5 ½" tall.