Country & Indian Gallery

    Crow Parfleche Envelope

• Ca. 1890.
• Rawhide and pigment.
• Dimensions: 14" x 26".
• Old native repair.

See The American Indian Parfleche by G. Torrence, p. 203.

     Pennsylvania or Ohio Scalloped Bench

• Ca. 1850.
• Old gray paint, minor restoration.
• 6' long and 15" wide.

• Features outstanding blue paint.
• Some paint restoration to the top and minor molding restoration to one side.
  
• Ca. 1880.
  
• Dimensions: 37¹/2"W x 16"D x 25"H.
  
  

   Folk Art Animal Menagerie

• Seven carved animals, including a lion, giraffe, hippopotamus, elephant, and three others I'll let you identify.
• Carved in the 1970s in central Wisconsin.

• Probably German.
  
• Original paint.
  
• Ca. 1880-1910.
• Dimensions: 14¹/2"L x 5¹/4"W x 13"H.

• One of a pair by the same maker.
• Great original paint, well made and functional.
• Ca. 1940.
• Dimensions: 24"L x 12"W x 23¹/2"H.
  (including base).

    Norwegian Staved Butter Tub

• Ca. 1890.
• Dimensions: 7"h x 7"w.
• Found in Backus, Minn.

• Fantastic bright chrome yellow paint.
• Signed "Munsing" on the bottom.
• Ca. 1890-1910.
• Dimensions: 12"W x 13"L x 3⁵/8" H.
  

     Cast Iron Tulip Vase

• Ca. 1890-1910
• Price: Sold.
  
  
  

• Original red paint with scratched and impressed decoration visible under the paint.
• Locally found. Norwegian immigrants to the Midwest primarily brought small items—things that could be easily carried on ships—rather than furniture when they immigrated. These boxes carried their small valuables,
  
• Ca. 1870.
  
• Dimensions: 8³/8"L x 4³/4"W x 3¹/2"H.
  

• Swedish, red and black grained hanging salt box.
• Old lid repair and side crack (see photo).
  
• Ca. 1890.
  
• Dimensions: 8¹/2"H x 6¹/4"W x 5 ⁵/8"D.
  

• Square nailed, original varnish finish.
• Ca. 19th century.
• Dimensions: 8"L x 3¹/2"W x 2⁵/8"H.
  

• A Norwegian valuables box, locally found.
  
• By 1890 50% of the Norwegian population had immigrated to the United States because of a potato famine and a significant number settled in the Midwest.
  
• Original brown paint; pegged and birch root sewing.
• Ca. 1870.
• Dimensions: 10"L x 5¹/2"W x 4¹/8"H.

• I'm not usually impressed by pine needle baskets, but this one is larger and better than most—probably a sewing basket.
  
• Thread/yarn decoration of flowers and leaves now faded with age (see interior photo for original color).
• Wear commensurate with age.
  
• Ca. early 20th century.
• Dimensions: 15"L x 14"W x 5¹/4"H.

• Pipe bag from a private museum; the label reads "Santee Sioux pipe bag with classic Santee design."
• Decorative tin cones and fringe.
• Beaded closure.
• Brain tanned deerskin
• Probably Minnesota or Dakotas
• Dimensions: 24"L (including 8" fringe) x 5¹/2"W.

• Vintage pair of Indian beaded gauntlets.
  
• Ca. 1930s.
• Machine sewn, unused condition.
  
• Red spot with slight abrasion on right glove (see photo).