Cultures and Ethnicities

You will NEVER find something like this again. It's a quite large stone hammer. It would've been held by the.

These 9 arrow heads are flawless. 7 of the arrow heads are authentic and consist of jade, quartz, peridot, and agate; Not sure if the other 2 are authentic or what stone it is.

This is a unique Navajo medicine bag. It is made entirely of a few colors of soft leather with a couple feathers. It measures only 5 1/2 high.

Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. This fascinating work delves into the origins and contemporary interpretations of Kachina and Ceremonial Dancer designs. This groundbreaking study establishes for the first time the identities of Zuni artists and their works from the 1940s through the 1960s. Their mosaic stone and shell inlay pins, bracelets, bolo ties, and other ornaments appear in 240 vibrant color photos revealing subtle variations that indicate a particular master's work and distinctive style. For the first time, this research introduces John Lucio's earlier pieces and confirms Anna Rita Homer and Lambert Homer Jr.'s pieces clearly, as never before. It also introduces Robert Cachini Sr. (formerly known only as R. C. Sr.)and his pieces. The author's analysis explains the changes and connections among early and recent makers and their individual styles, materials, and designs. For anyone with a passion for jewelry of the Southwest, this book will be a treasure. 240 color photos

Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. A treasury of selected pieces from the California Indian Heritage Center, this collection reflects the scale and scope of baskets created by nearly every weaving tradition in California over the last century. This book conveys the dual nature of beauty and practicality that baskets presented as a part of daily life and as a growing example of unique art - a careful selection of the best, beautifully presented.

Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. Here is the first book to cover all aspects of Native American equine tack/equipment as a single subject. It focuses on the equipment used by 19th century tribal men and women of North America. The dominant role of horses in these peoples' lives was reflected in the beautiful, practical, and artistic accoutrements made to decorate their prestigious and powerful animals. With informative text and over 200 beautiful color photos, readers will explore geographical locations and tribal characteristics, techniques, and materials used to create often beautiful horse gear. Equipment covered includes bridles, saddles, saddle blankets, saddlebags, breastcollars and cruppers, quirts, masks, and equine imagery in utilitarian objects. Cultural areas explored include the Plains, Prairie, Great Basin, Plateau, and the Southwest. Information essential to understanding variations in forms and decorative motifs amongst tribes, including trade relations and familiarization and varying geographical conditions, have also been discussed. 206 color photos

Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. Collector Bookstore Notes: This title showcases stellar Navajo and Zuni silver and turquoise, Hopi silver and Pueblo stone and shell jewelry from the Millicent Rogers Museum Collection of Native American Indian jewelry. Publishers Description: ART PATRON MILLICENT ROGERS was a passionate collector who assembled a stellar collection of Navajo and Zuni silver and turquoise, Hopi silver-work, and Pueblo stone and shell jewelry during the late 1940s and early 1950s when fine late nineteenth- and early- twentieth-century work could still be found. Her collection provided the foundation for what has become one of America's most important repositories for the aesthetic achievements of Native American jewelry makers in the Southwest. The Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos, New Mexico, honors the memory and creative life of Millicent Rogers and holds the majority of her personal collection of some 3,000 pieces, assembled during the time of her residence in Taos from 1947 until her untimely death in 1953. Oil heiress and fashion icon Millicent Rogers left the glamorous world of couturiers and the pages of Vogue to establish herself in Taos and to embark, despite failing health, on a robust path both to collect Indian and Hispano arts and crafts and to champion the distinctive importance of Native culture. A famous model and clothes designer in her own right, she also possessed a gift for jewelry collecting and designing. Fine Indian Jewelry of the Southwest presents Rogers's collection through her New Mexico experience, bringing to life the Taos she discovered and showcasing the authentic, classic era jewelry that she collected at a time when Fred Harvey and others were popularizing Indian made tourist pieces. The Millicent Rogers Museum has continued to collect Indian jewelry since Millicent Rogers's death, and the book includes striking examples of contemporary Navajo and Pueblo jewelry that, along with the Rogers collection, will serve as a solid overview of Southwest Indian jewelry from prehistory to the present.

Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. Horse brasses are flat, generally round, ornaments for decorating the harness of draught horses. First devised as charms to keep the animal safe, brasses later became purely decorative. This book traces the history of horse brasses, from the plain, simple early examples through to the more advanced brasses that were developed as our knowledge of brass casting improved. Packed with over 200 photographs of different horse brasses, this classic title is an ideal collector's introduction, and a section on the care, cleaning and renovation of horse brasses makes this essential reading for new collectors.

Carved Walrus Ivory Flying Snow Goose or Geese Earrings Native Alaskan or Eskimo Art. The are in exquisite condition mounted on gold tone screw backs. Note the curl of the upper wing. They measures 1.5 x 1.5 and are significantly thick. The condition of the ivory carving is excellent. There is a tad bit of tarnish on the metal of the earrings. The are unsigned. Please check out the Flying Snow Goose Brooch I have listed as the earrings did not come with the brooch but will match very well.

Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. For more than a decade, there's been one authoritative resource for true enthusiasts. Determined collectors, top dealers, and serious historians agree: The Official Overstreet Indian Arrowhead Identification and Price Guide is the best book of its kind. The most easy-to-use Indian arrowhead price guide on the market offers actual-size pictures, giving collectors an enormous advantage in identifying and valuing their arrowheads. This updated edition features: Over 12,000 actual-size photographs, with over 440 brand-new images in full color 10 geographic sections Up-to-date regional market reports A special section on how to identify and grade your points Hundreds of new illustrations Plus two new feature articles: Turkeytails, Funeral Observances, and the Sacred Calendar, and The Vail Habitation and Kill Site: Implications for Palaeo-American Behavior and Band Size, written by Richard Michael Gramly, Ph.D. Buy it - use it - become an expert

Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. A definitive reference on the ring bit, considered by some as one of the most humane and effective bits for a horse bridle. From as far back as the fourteenth century cavalry units of European, Middle Eastern, and Asian empires through the Spanish Colonial Period to today, this book offers insights into the history, function, and uses of the ring bit. In addition to the story of the ring bit, examples of early Moorish and Arab ring bits, as well as 16th-century Spanish bits are beautifully portrayed in detail. While no longer the bit of favor, the book documents modern uses of the ring bit in many parts of the world today. This is an ideal resource for collectors, horse riders and trainers, loriners, smiths of all kinds, and historians 410 color & b/w images

Approx. 4 long, lovely spoon, British hallmarks, appears very old, rampant lion hallmark for sterling silver, anchor for Birmingham, England, capital letter B for green agate on the end, twisted design handle, lovely unpolished darkened patina. Could this be 1850? According to this chart, possibly: /dlc_birmingham.html Spoon would be perfect except for the two missing sections of stones for the shamrock on the end. I am selling this as it is, as found, and pricing it accordingly.

Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. The intricate designs and complex patterns of Cherokee pottery have been developed over centuries. Both timeless and time-honored, these singular works of pottery are still crafted by the proud hands of Cherokee women in Western North Carolina. Cherokee Pottery recounts the history of a tradition passed from elder to child through countless generations. Anna Fariello, associate professor at Western Carolina University, explores the method and meaning molded into each piece, along with the stories of the potters themselves.

Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. Kent McManis and fellow trader Robert Jeffries have provided us with the definitive introduction to one of the most popular American Indian arts - Navajo rug weaving. This book covers development from the seventeenth century through innovations of the craft today-everything from the classic Chief's Blankets, to the famous Two Grey Hills designs, to the latest in pictorial rugs. Of great help to the new collector is the list of standards in judging the quality of a rug and advice for its proper care. Fully illustrated with stunning examples of over fifty rug types.

Approx. 6 long, green bakelite handle approx. 2 3/4 long, souvenir piece from California. Hard to read the city. Little fruit bunch decal on the end of a pear, apple and grapes. Very kitsch! Circa 1920s-30s, file is VERY oxidized. Good vintage condition, green bakelite has changed in color a bit and now shows a more brown overtone. Sold as found, all original and complete, decal is in very good condition.

Appears to be silver plate, wonderful raised Dutch design, 5.5 tall, unusual moving windmill, from Holland (maybe Belgian?), pub scene, unmarked, appears to be silver plate, fabulous European design, early to mid 1900s. Wonderful condition, warm unpolished patina, sold as found.

Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. What others have said about this reference: Finally a high quality complete guide on early Texas spurs and bits that answers all the most important questions yet is small enough to be taken anywhere. We will never travel without it! -- Bruce and Julianne Bartlett, Rio Grand Trading Company, San Antonio, Texas This is a book where you can actually get the facts about old makers. It's worth its weight in gold for the beginning collector who wants to learn fast. There are more makers featured than most people even know existed. -- Danny Neill, Long time collector and dealer in western memorabilia. An invaluable reference guide for the novice as well as the experienced collector. -- Cliff Logan, Austin, Texas The authors communicate their knowledge of equestrian material culture eloquently and thoroughly. Their books form a case study for examining the fusion of technology, art, and craftsmanship with cardinal functionality. -- Henry Crawford, Curator of History Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

Butterfly three dimensional sculpture carving, from Brazil, Brazilian souvenir, circa late 1900s, natural, handmade,base appears to be either burled walnut or a birds eye maple, hand carved figure of a butterfly with a lovely yet simple design, nearly 7 tall including the base, wingspan nearly 4.5 wide, lightweight, mat finish, very unusual and unique, one-of-a-kind. Superb condition. Estate find.

1965 Handpainted Artist Signed Painting-The Wailing Wall,Israel-Wood Framed 2/3'rds Yardlong Picture. What is the Wailing Wall? The Wailing Wall or Western Wall is the remains of the great Jewish temple, which had stood for close to 500 years. Herod began rebuilding and adding on to the temple in approximately 19 B.C.E., and the total work was not finished until fifty years later. The temple itself was destroyed by the Romans only a few years after its completion, circa 70 C.E. It is thought by Jews to be the most sacred of places, because the temple itself was thought to be the place where God resides on earth. Praying at the Wailing Wall signifies being in the presence of the Divine. Jews from all countries, and as well as tourists of other religious backgrounds, come to pray at the wall, where it is said one immediately has the ear of god. Those who cannot pray at the wall can send prayers or ask for the Kaddish to be said for departed loved ones. Prayers sent in are placed into the cracks of the walls and are called tzetzels. There is usually a small charge for this service. The name Wailing Wall is actually a Christian term. The Jews refer to the wall as the Western Wall or Kotel HaMaaravi. Though the Wailing Wall has been considered the holiest of places on earth for Jews, it has also been the source of grief and war. During the crusades, Jerusalem was held for a short time by European crusaders. It belonged to Spain, then to Turkey. During Spanish occupation, Judaism was a punishable offense, because Catholics mistakenly attributed the death of Christ to the Jews. When Jews were not being exiled from Jerusalem, or put to death, they were certainly not given access to the wall. In the 16th century, Jews regained access to the Wailing Wall to pray and assemble there. This permission was granted by the Arab Sultan, Selim, who is also credited with finding the first archaeological evidence that the wall existed, buried under refuse. Relative harmony in worshipping at the wall persisted until the 19th century. Then, Jewish leaders wanted control of the Wailing Wall and attempts were made by both Muslims and Jews to purchase it. Eventually, Arab leaders kept control, and forbid Jews to gather there. This was a source of much pain to the Jews, to be denied access to their central religious site. Struggle for use of the Wailing Wall continued through the 20th century, with bitterness among both religious groups. Islam holds some claim to the religious site, as does Judaism, because it is often believed that the prophet Muhammad ascended into heaven either near or at the Wailing Wall. With the establishment of Israel, control of the Wailing Wall returned to the Jews in 1967. There is still much underlying bitterness regarding this place where the holiest of holies resides, however, which in part contributes to continued poor relationships between Arabic countries and Israel. While enmity remains, the Wailing Wall has also been the site of reconciliation between Jews and Catholics. Pope John Paul II was the first pope to pray at the wall, as well as in a synagogue where he apologized for centuries of Catholic persecution of Jews, referring to them as the Catholics' elder brothers. Today the Wailing Wall can be visited at any time of the day, though visitors are thoroughly searched. Women of any religion, in respect for Judaic law, should wear modest clothing, and there are separate entrances for men and women, though they can regroup at the Wall. Only the bottom seven layers of the original stones of the Wailing Wall remain, but the both the Kotel tunnels and the sheer length of the wall impress visitors. The excavated cornerstones are close to 50 tons (approximately 45t). Many non-Jews describe a feeling of the sacred when viewing the wall. Whether viewed by the religious or non-religious, the Wailing Wall is an awesome structure, significantly rich in history both good and bad. NOTE: THE ABOVE INFORMATION POSTED BY: /what-is-the-wailing-wall.htm Beautiful representation of this spiritual symbol. Would make a nice addition to any home. This long framed picture was purchased that made a pilgrimage to the wall in 1965. On the back is a tag that reads: ISRAEL ARTS, BRIGTAN & NATAN 153, KAZENELSON STR., GIVATAYIM - ISRAEL. This is a Handpainting of The Wailing Wall a souvenir from my Trip to Israel on 1965. The painting depicts a man and a woman at the wall, the man leaning and praying on the wall and the woman reading from the bible. Lovely colors still vibrant all these years. The painting appears to be created from a woven weaved canvas cloth. This painting is SIGNED: ISRAEL, Y. BROSH, ?. Nice long light weight wood that was from that area. The wood border raises up to the painting. Overall the frame measures 11 inches wide by 22-1/2 inches high. Back of frame the painting measures approximately 8 inches wide by 19-3/4 inches high. Original old kraft paper on the back with a hang hook at the top. PLEASE MAKE SURE TO VIEW OUR OTHER MANY FRAMED AND UNFRAMED PRINTS WE HAVE LISTED. WE GLADLY COMBINE ORDERS FOR ADDED SHIPPING SAVINGS!! THANKS FOR VISITING DOGWOOD TRAIL ANTIQUES. WE GLADLY SELL WORLDWIDE ~ JUST ASK FOR SHIPPING QUOTE!!

Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. Collector Bookstore Notes: The author examines Native American Indian dolls, the children who played with them, and the cultural backgrounds that helped form them. Publisher's Description: Indian children have been mothering dolls since long before the first histories about them were written. These dolls represent a peaceful element of Indian life, although many that now reside in private collections may have witnessed the fighting at Wounded Knee or the Custer debacle. How terrible! Others may have sat around and evening campfire in the arms of Lady Pretty Blanket or Julia Sun Goes Slow. How Romantic! In this book the author looks inside the cultures that made these dolls and passed them down with loving care. He also has looked inside some of the dolls themselves and found clues to a way of life that are not noticeable to the casual observer. There has never been such a book as this. You will see.