Art of the American West
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Nov 1
4pmSale Ends
Nov 2
12pmTerms & Conditions
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John Moran Auctioneers
Description & Details
More than 350 lots of Western and Native made art and objects comprise Moran’s last Art of the American West auction of 2023. Western bronzes Pueblo pottery from Acoma, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Anasazi, Zuni and Zia Pueblos represents a large portion of the auction. Navajo textiles including Germantown and late 19th century examples compliment the more contemporary offerings. Olaf Weighorst, Nicholas Firfires, Gordon Coutts, Arthur Best, Elbridge Burbank, Herman Hansen, and Marjorie Reed all work to convey life in the American West through their unique perspectives. Incredible examples of California basketry from the Yokuts, Mission, Tübatulabal, Panamint, Pomo and Hupa tribes represent more than 40 lots. Additionally, art, stone and wood carvings, basketry and objects from Northwest Coast and Inuit artists round out the sale.












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Nicholas S. Firfires
1917-1990
"Running Them In," 1970
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right: Nicholas S. Firfires © CA [superimposed letters, indicating membership in Cowboy Artists of America]; titled on a label affixed to the stretcher
30" H x 44" W
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3858969/1-2/dc194298-b8c6-48f6-8730-50bd901ad58b.jpg)







































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An Acoma Pueblo Olla Pottery Jar
Early 20th century; New Mexico
Graphite inscription to underside: Sept 13, 1932 / [sic] Laguna / [sic] ariz.
The jar with brown on white buff geometric motifs and a terracotta wash to the base
5.5" H x 8.25" Dia.
Estimate: $200 - $300](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3858969/1-2/3ce0b045-55a3-44fe-944e-168d9c8f1932.jpg)






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Pahponee (B. 20th Century, Kickapoo/Potawatomie)
A large whiteware micaceous pottery jar, 2007
Signed: 2007 / Pahponee / [cipher]
The globular form large jar with narrow flared neck
13' H x 14.25" Dia.
Estimate: $700 - $900](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3858969/1-2/ef372ecb-49ed-42eb-96ba-1be9eebcae38.jpg)






































![99
Matiusie Iyaituk
b. 1950, Inuit; Ivujivik
Carved Figure With Inset Face And Knife
Stone, bone, and caribou antler
Marked syllabically; further marked: EA / © / 3-1; further marked with stickers: I-16803 / 195 / [partially illegible] / 3-16085 / Matthew Iyaituk / Canada eskimo art esquimau / [graphic of figure building igloo] / 3
5.25" H x 2" W x 4.25" D
Estimate: $200 - $300](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3858969/1-2/f18f4f20-7dfe-4cb9-acb2-e27b9b76437b.jpg)








































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Johnny Inukpuk
1911-2007, Inuit; Port Harrison/Inukjuak
Carved Figure Of Boy Ice Fishing
Stone
Signed syllabically to underside and numbered: C-NO-5-87 / 14160; further marked with sticker: [illegible] / eskimo art esquimau
10" H x 6.875" W x 6.5" D
Estimate: $200 - $300](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3858969/1-2/5f934615-b8b0-4400-9f8e-6d3c411dbd9d.jpg)

![142
Three Inuit Carved Stone Figures
Three works:
Allie Kasudluak
(1926-1982, Inuit; Port Harrison/Inukjuak)
Carved bird figure with incised feathers
Stone
Signed syllabically to underside
3.25" H x 6.5" W x 2.75" D
Josie Pamiutu Papialuk
(1918-1996, Inuit; Povungnituk/Puvirnituq)
Carved seal head breaching ice, circa 1986
Stone
Signed to underside: Josie Papialook [sic] / © / 81; further marked with partially illegible disc number
2.875" H x 2.5" W x 2.75" D
Davidee Saumik
(1925-1984, Inuit; Port Harrison/Inukjuak)
Carved duck
Stone
Signed syllabically to underside; further marked: 187391
4" H x 4.25" W x 2" D
3 pieces
Estimate: $200 - $300](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3858969/1-2/e3525f48-0211-47ed-8d1b-644e9713a13f.jpg)

![144
A Group Of Inuit Carved Stone Animal Figures
Mid/late 20th century
Flounder marked: EVAGLOK [possibly for Alice Evaglok (b. 1917, Inuit; Coppermine/Kugluktuk)]; one incised illegibly to underside; one marked 1662
Comprising four stone fish, one mounted on a wood base, 4 pieces
Mounted fish: 4.25" H x 5" W x 1.5" D; smallest: 1.325" H x 3.5" W x 0.875" D
Estimate: $300 - $500](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3858969/1-2/97a14f56-6645-425d-b3ba-d6e0db758669.jpg)













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Circa 1901-1917
A Set Of L. & J.G. Stickley Side Chairs, No. 350
Each marked to verso: THE WORK OF L & JG STICKLEY; one marked with Stickley shop mark [joiner's compass]
Comprising six oak wood ladder back dining chairs with leather wrapped seat upholstery, sold together with one Gustav Stickley dining chair no. 1301 with leather wrapped seat upholstery and iron tacking, 7 pieces
Set of six: 35" H x 16.625" W x 18.75" D; solo chair: 36.5" H x 16.875" W x 20.25" D
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3858969/1-2/7d39031e-89e0-4ba9-8dae-1c84b9eef598.jpg)
























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Five Hopi Pueblo Yellowware Pottery Tiles
Five works:
Sadie Adams (1905-1995, Hopi-Tewa)
Two polychrome pottery tiles, mid-late 20th century
Each three-color yellowware tile depicting a parrot
Largest: 4.325" H x 4.5" W
Lorna Lomakema (b. 1930, Hopi-Tewa)
A polychrome pottery tile, mid/late 20th century
Signed to underside: Lorna Lomakema
The tile with opposed three-color geometric motifs
4.25" H x 4.25" W
Darlene Nampeyo (b. 1956, Hopi-Tewa)
A polychrome pottery tile, late 20th century
Incised signature to underside: Darlene Nampeyo [corn cipher]
The three-color tile depicting a kachina-style face with arms
4.75" H x 4.25" W
Rachel Sahmie Nampeyo (1956-2022, Hopi-Tewa)
A polychrome pottery tile, late 20th/early 21st century
Signed to underside: R Sahmie Nampeyo
The three-color tile with nine graphic squares, four corner panels painted with geometric motifs and a central panel depicting a moth figure
4.25" H x 4" W
5 pieces
Estimate: $400 - $600](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3858969/1-2/a3ddf64b-0cd7-4e50-bc55-50fa89a38caf.jpg)

























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Late 19th/Early 20th Century American School
Horses and Taos pueblo
Oil on canvas
Indistinctly signed and dated [possibly 1902] in the lower right corner
12.5" H x 16" W
Estimate: $400 - $600](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3858969/1-2/9ddf9007-da66-4bf8-9139-3f3c516324ca.jpg)






















































![264
Selina Sanchez (B. 1957, Acoma Pueblo)
A fine line and polychrome pottery seed pot, late 20th/early 21st century
Marked to underside: Acoma, New Mexico / By: [Zia symbol] 'Selina Sanchez'
The three-color pot with fine line geometric motifs centering a domestic scene of a couple holding hands, surmounted by two applied black bear cubs
5.5" H x 5.5" Dia.
Estimate: $200 - $300](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3858969/1-2/5a4b3e67-023a-4c92-89a5-3460a44a1db3.jpg)

![266
Margaret Seymour (1931-2006, Acoma Pueblo)
An Acoma Pueblo pottery seed pot, mid-20th/21st century
Signed to underside: M. Seymour / Acoma / NM / USA / [pictograph of Acoma Pueblo]
The black-on-white pottery vessel with black fineline starburst pattern to top, edged with a polychrome and a figural band, and with black and white diamond columns beneath, all on white slip glaze
7" H x 7.5" Dia.
Estimate: $100 - $200](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3858969/1-2/f89b1137-ace4-4293-94cf-3b7d7968988a.jpg)




![271
A Polychrome Zia Pueblo Olla Pottery Jar
Early 20th century; New Mexico
Marked to underside: Zia / [illegible]
The pottery jar with black and red roadrunner and kiva step motifs about a terracotta wash
6.75" H x 8.25" Dia.
Estimate: $200 - $400](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3858969/1-2/959c67da-f998-4a0b-a43e-edc1ba363374.jpg)















![287
A Plains Carved Catlinite Pipe
20th century; Great Plains
Signed to base of stone: [figural motif] / Crow
Pipe head with brushed metallic inlay stripes attached to newer curved wood stem embellished with a beaded and hide fringe embellishment to center
30" L x 4" H x 1" Dia. approximately
Estimate: $200 - $300](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3858969/1-2/c5be236f-0b37-4296-bd92-bffb61270018.jpg)















![303
A Group Of Puebloan Blackware Wedding Vases
Mid/late 20th century; Southwestern United States
Diminutive vase incised to underside: Linda Askan [b. 1954] / Santa Clara Pueblo / '97; one with indecipherable signature
The burnished pottery vases in various sizes, four with black on black painted designs, 5 pieces
Largest: 7.75" H x 5.325" W x 3" D; smallest: 3" H x 2.5" W x 1.75" D
Estimate: $200 - $400](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3858969/1-2/b1583dfd-5582-46e5-b594-98fa20af09b4.jpg)




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Pauline Setalla (B. 1930, Hopi)
A Hopi Pueblo polychrome pottery canteen, mid/late 20th century
Signed to underside: [bear paw] Pauline Setalla
The three-color canteen with corn cob and geometric motifs, cork stopper, and leather strap
11" H x 9.5" W x 6.5" D
Estimate: $200 - $300](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3858969/1-2/ae90cc51-438a-4e37-8e60-e8d52741f765.jpg)






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Miriam Nampeyo (B. 1956, Hopi-Tewa)
A group of polychrome pottery vessels, late 20th century
Each signed to underside: Miriam Nampeyo [corn stalk]
Comprising a yellowware seed pot, a high-shouldered yellowware jar, and a small low-shouldered jar, each with three-color migration motifs
3 pieces
Seed pot: 3.325" H x 5" Dia.; jar: 3.875" H x 3.125" Dia.
Estimate: $300 - $500](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3858969/1-2/9477a174-e87a-4ff5-ac40-983ed871e73e.jpg)
![317
Loretta Navasie (B. 1948, Hopi-Tewa Pueblo)
Three Hopi Pueblo polychrome olla jars, late 20th century
Each signed to underside: [frog cipher] / L
The jars with red and black avian and geometric motifs on a white buff ground, 3 pieces
Largest: 5.875" H x 6.325" Dia.; 4.5" H x 5.75" Dia.
Estimate: $300 - $500](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3858969/1-2/49e98ed8-a5e2-4941-984e-c6c13a8e97c6.jpg)





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A Group Of Puebloan Pottery Vessels
20th century; Southwestern United States
Largest marked: Vickey T. Calabaza / S.D.P.; second smallest marked: Tegua by [indecipherable]
Comprising six Hopi and Santo Domingo Pueblo vessels with monotone and duotone painted designs, 6 pieces
Largest: 6" H x 5.5" W; smallest: 2" H x 2.25" W
Estimate: $200 - $300](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3858969/1-2/842fb346-c927-480d-a541-c716507b5be9.jpg)


![326
A Mixed Group Of Native American-Style Miniature Objects
20th century
Six marked for maker
A large varied group of diminutive items including a pierced carved wood cup (Sinner / SKS / O4), a Hopi pottery katsina figure, a Hopi wooden kiva ceremony tableau scene with tiny figures, four Puebloan miniature pottery jars in various styles (N. Simplicio, Zuni; AROY [feather]; Nona Naha), a silver jar with applied lizard motifs, two Pima/Tohono O'odham-style miniature white horsehair lidded baskets, a large painted pottery lidded jar, two miniature lidded baskets, and a basketry woven bird figure, 14 pieces total
Largest: 4.75" H x 2" Dia.; smallest: 0.625" H x 0.5" Dia.
Estimate: $200 - $400](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3858969/1-2/75f8249c-33ca-4a15-bfbe-0034000bff7c.jpg)



![330
Two Puebloan Pottery Owls
Mid/late 20th century; Southwestern United States
One marked to underside: [rising sun] / Acoma Sky City / Virginia Lowden; one marked: Santa Clara
Comprising one Virginia Lowden (b. 1936, Acoma Pueblo) brown on white painted pottery owl and one burnished blackware owl set in a nest, 2 pieces
Blackware: 4" H x 2.5" W x 2.325" D; Lowden: 3" H x 3" W x 2.125" D
Estimate: $200 - $400](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3858969/1-2/5f02f3d8-2d72-4c41-a3c8-c5fc327fb3f3.jpg)






![337
A Southwest Clown Katsina Tree And Carved Katsinas
20th century; Southwestern United States
Tree unsigned; Figures: one marked: Warrior; one marked: Wolf by Pooley [possibly for Emil Pooley]
Comprised of a mounted tree branch with four polychrome painted clown figures together with three small polychrome carved wood katsina figures, 4 pieces
Tree: 23" H x 18" W; largest figure: 4.625" H
Estimate: $200 - $300](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3858969/1-2/a360ef96-2aff-4cc2-a44a-e487ac9ddd7d.jpg)


![340
A Large Group Of Puebloan Carved Stone Fetish Figures
Late 20th/21st century
Most marked variously: sixteen etched: TT [for Terrence Tsethlakai, Zuni]; two etched: AS /NM [likely for Thelma and/or Aaron Sheche, Zuni]; five dual coyotes marked indistinctly in ink: [likely Thelma and/or Aaron Sheche, Zuni]
Comprising a mixed group of fetish carved figures in various stones, sizes, and animals, including coyotes, dual coyotes, wolves, bears, moles, beavers, coyotes, badgers, birds, a squirrel, a frog and a large figural shape, fifteen with bindings, and one shaped like an arrowhead, 34 pieces
Largest: 1.75" H x 6" W x 0.75" D; smallest: 1.625" H x 0.625" W x 0.125" D
Estimate: $200 - $400](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3858969/1-2/a32c2330-1f7a-4754-91c4-1cdf24f8af23.jpg)







![348
A Group Of Puebloan Pottery Vessels
Four works:
Emma Yepa Jemez (b. 1968, Jemez Pueblo)
A redware olla jar, late 20th century
Incised to underside: Emma Yepa / Jemez
The jar with sgraffito banded feather and stepped motifs
5.25" H x 6" Dia.
Mark Wayne Garcia (b. 20th century, Santo Domingo Pueblo)
A low shouldered seed pot, late 20th century
Signed to underside: Mark Wayne Garcia / Santo Domingo Pueblo / [MW cipher]
With black feather motif radiating from center on red ground
2" W x 5.75" Dia.
Two redware bowls, mid/late 20th century
Each appears unmarked
Comprising of one flat shouldered and one small bowl, each with banded indented designs to shoulder, 2 pieces
Larger: 3" H x 7.5" Dia.; smaller: 2.75" H x 4.5" Dia.
4 pieces total
Estimate: $300 - $500](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3858969/1-2/5e6c488e-ca24-4503-80b7-d24a2cfc7181.jpg)








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