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Bidding is now open for our Native American Art & Jewelry auction, Day 1 of our three-day December sale, featuring Navajo, Zuni and Hopi silver and turquoise jewelry, Navajo rugs, Pueblo pottery, baskets, kachinas and carvings. Highlights include a Toby Henderson sterling and turquoise kachina sculpture, a Victor Coochwytewa Hopi overlay cuff and an Anthony Lovato tufa cast cuff, alongside pieces by Lewis Lomay, Peter and Dinah Gasper, Emma Lewis and Lowell Talashoma Sr., and more. Auction is Tuesday, December 1st at 1 PM CST. Local pickup is December 7th, 8th and 9th from 1 to 5 PM at 5263 Edina Industrial Blvd, Edina, MN. Shipping is available on all lots.
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Lot 193

Lowell Talashoma Sr Hand-Carved "White Buffalo Dancer" Kachina Doll

Estimate: $150 - $300
Starting Bid
$50

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $5
$50 $10
$250 $25
$1,000 $50
$2,000 $100
$4,000 $250
$10,000 $500
$20,000 $1,000
$50,000 $2,500
$100,000 $5,000
$500,000 $10,000

Signed on the bottom. 

 

Dimensions: 5" Diameter Base x 15 1/2" Tall 

 

Condition: Light wear to the pigment of the sculpture. Please see images for details. 

 

Artist Bio: Lowell Talashoma Sr. (1950-2003) came to Hopi carving by an unusual road. He was born into a family of carvers, the son of Wilburt Talashoma Sr. and the brother of Wilburt Jr. and Todd, all of whom carved katsina dolls, but he spent much of his childhood with foster parents in Utah. On a visit to the mesas as a boy he refused to go back. He stayed, set about becoming Hopi, and began carving at about the age of ten.

He grew into one of the finest carvers on the reservation, admired for strong form and musculature and for carving each figure from a single piece of cottonwood root. American Indian Life and Legends chose him, with Neil David Sr., as one of two Hopi artists whose cottonwood katsinam were cast as limited edition bronzes, and his work is illustrated in the standard books on Hopi carvers by Theda Bassman, Helga Teiwes and Erik Bromberg. His son, Lowell Talashoma Jr., carves in turn. This White Buffalo Dancer is signed on the bottom.

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