39 Clockwise from left Navajo classic manta (detail). 116 x 132 cm. Est. $80,000–120,000 To be offered at Bonhams, San Francisco, on December 9, 2013. Cheyenne shield and covers. Est. $150,000–200,000 To be offered at Bonhams, San Francisco, on December 9, 2013. Okvik Eskimo ivory head. Est. $150,000–250,000 To be offered at Bonhams, San Francisco, on December 9, 2013. Kwakiutl potlatch ladle. L: 96.5 cm. Est. $20,000–30,000. To be offered at Bonhams, San Francisco, on December 9, 2013. Below: Altar. Zuni, New Mexico. C. 1850/1860. Wood, natural pigments, nails, hair, beads, fur, leather, twine, natural cotton. H: 51 cm. Ex Vincent Price. Est: 80,000–100,000 euros. To be offered at EVE, Paris, on December 9, 2013. Auctions and Shows 21–23 November 2013 THEMA, Brussels 24 November–1 December 2013 PAN, Amsterdam www.pan.nl 30 November 2013 Tribal Art Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg www.tribal-art-auktion.de 4 December 2013 Arts of the American West: A Collection from the David J. Brown Family Sotheby’s, New York www.sothebys.com 6 December 2013 Le prix international du livre d’art tribal Sotheby’s, Paris www.pilat2011.com 9 December 2013 American Indian and Pre-Columbian Art EVE, Droûot Richelieu, Paris www.auctioneve.com 9 December 2013 Native American Art Bonhams, San Francisco www.bonhams.com 10 December 2013 African, Oceanic, and American Indian Art Christie’s, Paris www.christies.com 11 December 2013 African and Oceanic Art Sotheby’s, Paris www.sothebys.com 15–19 January 2014 LA Art Show 2014 Los Angeles www.laartshow.com 22–26 January 2014 Winter B Sablon 4 Brussels www.winterbsablon.com 25 January–2 February 2014 BRAFA 2014 Brussels www.brafa.be 28 January 2014 African and Oceanic Art Lempertz, Brussels www.lempertz.eu January 2014 African and Oceanic Art Native, Brussels www.native-auctions.com 6–9 February 2014 San Francisco Tribal and Textile Arts Show Fort Mason, San Francisco www.caskeylees.com NATIVE AMERICAN ART AT BONHAMS San Francisco—Bonhams will hold its autumn Native American art sale on December 9 in San Francisco. Eskimo and Northwest Coast objects are among the highlights of the sale, the star of which is unquestionably an Okvik Eskimo ivory head, some 2,000 years old, which is estimated at $150,000–250,000. This and two other Okvik objects in the sale are fresh to the market, having been consigned by the inhabitants of St. Lawrence Island. The highlight of the Northwest Coast part of the sale is a massive Kwakiutl figural feast ladle. Other strengths will include historic Southwest pottery and California baskets from the Phillips Collection, as well as works by the most famous Hopi-Tewa potter, the matriarch Nampeyo. The top of the textile section will likely be a rare Navajo woman’s manta, one of the best of its type, which is estimated at $80,000–120,000. From the Plains/Plateau/Woodlands regions will be another major highlight of the sale: a Plains shield and two painted covers, probably Cheyenne, decorated with dramatic iconography representing colorful thunderbirds, estimated at $150,000–200,000. ARTS OF THE AMERICAS SALE Paris—EVE auction house is holding its third sale of the year, this one devoted to the arts of the Americas. Twenty lots of Eskimo art, sixty American Indian works, and 150 Pre-Columbian objects will be sold on December 9 at 2 p.m. in Room 10 of the Hotel Droûot. Highlights of the sale include a Zuni altar, formerly the property of Vincent Price and a real world premiere, as well as a group of Hopi frescoes made for American museums in the 1940s and inspired by an ancestral pictorial tradition of which very few vestiges remain. Hopi masks and Kachina figures will also be offered, as will an exceptional mid-nineteenthcentury painted buffalo hide featuring a Plains Indian feather sun design. Quality will also be apparent in the Pre-Columbian lots, which will include Mesoamerican and Andean works from private American collections, including the Stendahl Collection. The auction will be preceded by a program of free lectures on November 30, which will take place at 12 Rue Droûot.
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