Front Range Auctioneers -
- Stan Howe & Assoc.
Helena, Montana
#395 Tori photos Page 3
The pot sold for $700.
This magnificent copper and hammered iron pot was purchased from a well known Indian expert about 25 years ago and is being offered for the first time since that purchase. It was dug up many years from an abandoned cache north of Kalispell in Canada. It shows the many years of use and the smoke of a thousand fires where it hung for cooking or was nestled in the coals of a campfire.
The iron work for the bail is magnificent as is the shaping of the copper that forms the bowl. We can only wish we knew the story of its life, from manufacture in the east to an Indian village in the west, carefully buried in a cache to be retrieved at some later date. It is about 11 inches in diameter and about 6 inches deep, big enough to cook a stew of Buffalo for a family coming down from the Porcupine Hills -- the land of the northern Buffalo herds to spend the winter in the pleasant valleys of what later became Montana.
What a magnificent collector piece for the lover of history and the Native residents who lived a thousand generations in this land before the white man came.
This will sell at 1 PM on Sunday, followed by the other Native American pieces we have, some which are from the wonderful collection of Eddie Barbeau, proud Indian and collector of Indian work as well as a renowned artist himself. He was a long time resident of Helena, with a small acreage about where the Town Pump on East Custer now stands.
This is a collection of arrowheads, spear points and tools that was put together many years ago by a Helena man who traveled for years to assemble it. Unfortunately, we do not have the key with the descriptions that matched the numbers. It is a wonderful collection and is all old and authentic as far as we know.
Some of the hammers and stone tools that will sell after the pot and arrowheads.
We even have a couple tubs of cow skulls.
This magnificent copper and hammered iron pot was purchased from a well known Indian expert about 25 years ago and is being offered for the first time since that purchase. It was dug up many years from an abandoned cache north of Kalispell in Canada. It shows the many years of use and the smoke of a thousand fires where it hung for cooking or was nestled in the coals of a campfire.
The iron work for the bail is magnificent as is the shaping of the copper that forms the bowl. We can only wish we knew the story of its life, from manufacture in the east to an Indian village in the west, carefully buried in a cache to be retrieved at some later date. It is about 11 inches in diameter and about 6 inches deep, big enough to cook a stew of Buffalo for a family coming down from the Porcupine Hills -- the land of the northern Buffalo herds to spend the winter in the pleasant valleys of what later became Montana.
What a magnificent collector piece for the lover of history and the Native residents who lived a thousand generations in this land before the white man came.
This will sell at 1 PM on Sunday, followed by the other Native American pieces we have, some which are from the wonderful collection of Eddie Barbeau, proud Indian and collector of Indian work as well as a renowned artist himself. He was a long time resident of Helena, with a small acreage about where the Town Pump on East Custer now stands.
This is a collection of arrowheads, spear points and tools that was put together many years ago by a Helena man who traveled for years to assemble it. Unfortunately, we do not have the key with the descriptions that matched the numbers. It is a wonderful collection and is all old and authentic as far as we know.
We even have a couple tubs of cow skulls.
