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Lot 491: Colton's Atlas of the World, 1856, in Two Volumes; plus Africa / Mahdist War Map

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1st and 2nd Items: COLTON''S ATLAS OF THE WORLD, George Woolworth Colton, New York: J.H. Colton and Co., 1856. Two large folio volumes, bound in publisher''s brown cloth, with gilt and blind stamped covers and spine, full-page hand-colored plates, each with accompanying informational text. Volume I, "North and South America", containing 57 plates; with plates […]

Lot 492: 5 TVA Map Books incl. Tennessee & New York c. 1935-1950

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Five (5) Tennessee Valley Authority USGS quadrangle topographic map books, circa 1935-1950. 1st-4th items: Various Southern cities and counties including areas in and around Knoxville, Nashville, and Chattanooga, TN, as well as Asheville, Cherokee, Highlands, and Cashiers, North Carolina, and Paducah, Kentucky. Also includes maps of areas in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, and Louisiana. […]

Lot 489: Seven (7) Native American Carved Stone/Flint Arrowheads

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Seven (7) Pre-Columbian Native American carved stone and flint artifacts including arrowheads and knives. 1st item: Pine tree point dart/knife form found in Humphrey County, TN, report dates to the Early Archaic period. 5900 B.C. 2nd item: Stemmed effigy point spearhead form, report dates to the Middle Woodland period. 100 B.C. 3rd item: Thebes point […]

Lot 490: Cherokee Land Lottery Book, 1838

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THE CHEROKEE LAND LOTTERY, CONTAINING A NUMERICAL LIST OF THE NAMES OF THE FORTUNATE DRAWERS IN SAID LOTTERY WITH AN ENGRAVED MAP OF EACH DISTRICT, by James F. Smith. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1838. First edition. 8vo., 410pp (of 414), plus publisher''s advertisements; full leather covers, red spine label and gilt title; 9" H […]

Lot 488: 2 Native American Cherokee Baskets & 1 East TN Basket

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Two (2) Cherokee split oak baskets including one wastebasket form with walnut-dyed weavers and one basket with fixed handle and square base with faded dyed weavers. Lot also includes one East Tennessee or possibly Cherokee split oak circular basket, ribbed form with fixed handle and footed base. Ranging in size from 11 3/4" H to […]

Lot 486: 2 Native American Pottery Jars, Martha Appleleaf & Gwen Tofoya

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Two Native American Navajo pottery jars including one blackware jar by Martha Appleleaf (B. 1950) San Ildefonso Pueblo, with stylized feather and geometric designs, incised signature to the base, and one blackware jar by Gwen Tofoya (B. 1965) Santa Clara Pueblo with carved and sgraffito floral and butterfly designs, incised signature to the base. 6 […]

Lot 487: 3 Pieces Native American Hopi Pottery

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Three Native American Hopi pottery pieces including: 1 polychrome earthenware wedding vase with white slip ground and rust and brown geometric designs, signed on the base D. R. together with a frog pictorial, for Donna Navasie, the granddaughter of Joy Navasie (Frogwoman), 12 3/4" H; 1 earthenware polychrome vase by Carla Nampeyo (b. 1961) with […]

Lot 484: Ancestral Pueblo Tularosa Corrugated Olla

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Native American prehistoric, Anasazi corrugated pottery olla, circa 1200-1300 AD. 13" H x 12" Dia. Note: Oral history states that this pot was excavated at the end of Malpais Lava Bed, west of NM Hwy 117. The grass seed-filled pouch was found inside of the olla. CONDITION: Rim with old restoration. Losses and wear are […]

Lot 485: 3 Native American Pottery Items , incl. Elizabeth Medina 

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Three Native American pottery jars including: a Zia polychrome earthenware olla by Elizabeth Medina (b. 1954) Jemez Pueblo with roadrunner and geometric designs, signed on the base; a Navajo carved earthenware round jar with allover black pictorial decoration including Kachina, various animals and insects, musical instruments, nature, pottery and flowers, signed on the base T. […]