Show-stopping late-1890s Sioux buckskin war shirt decorated with pony beads, trimmed with fringe and accented by uncommon trade-cloth trim. Great eye appeal. Estimate $4,500-$6,500
CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Collectors of genuine Old West, cowboy and Native American art and relics are getting ready to “saddle up” and head out to historic Cheyenne, Wyoming for one of the year’s most spirited gatherings: New Frontier’s big August 25-27 Show & Auction at the Laramie County Event Center at Archer. Absentee and live-online auction bidding will be available during the auction through LiveAuctioneers.
Standing Bear’s pipe-tomahawk, photographed in May 2017 on display in the Native American collection at the Peabody Museum at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Harvard officials returned the object to the Ponca tribe in a ceremony held on June 3. Standing Bear, a Native American civil rights pioneer, originally gave the pipe-tomahawk to one of his lawyers, John Lee Webster, in 1879. It passed through several hands before the university acquired it in 1982. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Daderot. Shared under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication
BOSTON (AP) – A tomahawk once owned by Chief Standing Bear, a pioneering Native American civil rights leader, has been returned to his tribe after being housed for decades in a museum at Harvard University.
