Thanks, I know you've mentioned that before. :)
Yes, Shiloh. My parents had a number of items like that, trivets, and boxes, I imagine I still have some. They traveled through India and the...
The pen-holder is not NW Coast, but from the Middle East. The pen is typical of many sold in Alaska, I'd guess 1920-1950, could be anywhere in...
:) I do like that table though...I could sure find some stuff to put in it.
Re those little cartons with their wax bottles of syrup: apparently if you still had one of those cartons, with the bottles untouched, you'd be...
If I remember Taupou's lessons, the fringe would indicate non-native origin; possibly a Chimayo weaving from Mexico. But I am not a rug expert...
:) One of the more interesting ways to say "decorative interest only."
FTGH: Free to good home?
yes, everyone has found some amazing things...I like the boxes, one looks to be maple with a nice burly or tiger-eye pattern...and I can really...
Yes, one of the family characteristics is the use of deep colors; intense reds and greens. Here's a couple by the father, Harris Smith: [ATTACH]...
And another; don't tell my wife but this will be a gift for her. It can be worn as a brooch or necklace. Rod Smith (Galuyagmi 'Great First...
Recent find: my wife and I collect the work of Judy Cranmer, Kwakiutl by marriage; she painted abstract form-line designs onto stoneware items...
What kind of wood are the back and sides made of? Photo?
Sure, a nice guitar for that money. It isn't strung up in the pics; might be worth putting some strings on, see if it plays ok.
It looks like solid wood in the photos, but Westbrook would not be considered a major maker of quality guitars, whether in the US or Japan, in my...
I've never seen any eskimo items anything like that. I'd be thinking Phillipines, Indonesia, far or middle east perhaps; rather than the Americas.
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I'd be thinking monogram, and by a SW artist with the name Bearheels; I haven't found any internet reference though.
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