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ABOVE: Bottleneck basket.
Chumash, Central Coast,
California.
The Alan and Bronnie Blaugrund
Collection.
Three-rod coils of basket rush or spiny
rush, sewn with sumac. D: 16.8 cm.
To be offered by Bonhams, Los
Angeles, on December 10, 2018,
est. $25,000–45,000.
ABOVE: Oystercatcher rattle
attributed to Kadjisdu.axch.
Tlingit, Old Wrangell, Alaska.
C. 1770–1790.
Ex Hugh S. Wyman and Dr. Hal C.
Wyman.
Wood, pigment, fi ber. L: 30.5 cm.
To be offered by Bonhams, Los
Angeles, on December 11, 2018,
est. $100,000–150,000.
BELOW: Tobacco pipe.
Tlingit, Alaska. C. 1870s.
Private collection, Stowe, Vermont;
Museum of the American Indian/Heye
Foundation, (1/4967?), New York City.
Wood, musket barrel, abalone shell.
L: 10.2 cm.
To be offered by Skinner, Boston, on
December 1, 2018, est. $5,000–7,000.
LEFT: Shaman’s mask.
Tlingit, Alaska. 1860s–1870s.
Collected by James G. Swan; gifted to the Medford
Public Library, Medford, Massachusetts, by Swan,
September 28, 1880.
Wood, pigment. H: 23.5 cm.
To be offered by Skinner, Boston, on December 1, 2018,
est. $30,000–50,000.
BONHAMS
Los Angeles—Bonhams’ Native American art sale
will be held over two days, on December 10 and 11,
2018. The Monday session will be devoted to a single
owner collection: the Alan and Bronnie Blaugrund
Collection of Native American baskets, which consists
of 210 lots. Tuesday will be a various-owners sale that
will include a strong selection of kachina dolls, Northwest
Coast and Eskimo art and artifacts, historic pottery,
Navajo weavings, and beadwork from the Plains
and Plateau regions. Highlights include Fritz Scholder’s
1970 painting Screaming Indian, which is on the
market for the fi rst time; a Lakota Sioux three-bladed
effi gy club; and a pair of Apache beaded moccasins
with Geronimo provenance. The leading lot is likely
to be a Tlingit Oystercatcher rattle attributed to the
master carver Kadjisdu.axch. It comes from a collection
of Native American objects assembled in the late
nineteenth century by Dr. Hugh S. Wyman and his
brother, Dr. Hal C. Wyman, which remained with the
family until the present owner acquired them from a
descendent a decade ago.
SKINNER
Boston—A sale of American Indian and ethnographic
art will be held by Skinner on December 1, 2018,
and will feature property from a number of private
collections, much of which has not been seen in the
market for generations. Among the Native American
offerings are artworks from the Northampton Coun-
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