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Auction 100, Lot 498

"[Lot of 10 Pottery Plates]", Bureau of American Ethnology

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Subject: Native Americans

Period: 1898 (published)

Publication: 17th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology

Color: Printed Color

Size:
7 x 9.5 inches
17.8 x 24.1 cm
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These beautiful collotype illustrations are from the report by Dr. Jesse W. Fewkes titled "Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895". Dr. Fewkes was a renowned archeologist and ethnographer who conducted several explorations in the heart of the pueblo country at the turn of the century. These pots are identified as being from the Sikyatki ruins.

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Condition: A+

Estimate: $100 - $150

Sold for: $180

Closed on 9/12/2002

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