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March 4, 2026: Winter Americana - Day One

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Lot 130

EXTREMELY RARE AND IMPORTANT NATIVE AMERICAN CREE BEADWORK SASH

Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000
Starting Bid
$4,000

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $10
$200 $25
$500 $50
$1,000 $100
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$30,000 $2,500
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

EXTREMELY RARE AND IMPORTANT NATIVE AMERICAN CREE BEADWORK SASH, Cree beadwork sash, warp-faced weave of buffalo wool, decorated with black and white glass beads, probably Venetian, in a diamond geometric pattern measuring 17 beads wide, braided tassel ends. 1768-1771. 42" L. Reserve.
Catalogue Note: The beadwork sash was collected between 1768 and 1771 by George Holt, an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company, while he was in Canada, where he went on several expeditions to Fort Churchill, Cape Esquimaux, Whale Cove, and Marble Head, among others, and recorded his meetings with native tribes. Holt gave the sash, along with other Native American pieces, to Dr. Andrew Gifford, an English Baptist minister who, at his death in 1784, bequeathed these "curiosities" along with a large archive to the Baptist Academy in Bristol, England. The Gifford Collection "curios", which included the sash, were eventually sold in 1979 to Mrs. Linda Barnard Finer, who had the objects cleaned and mounted by Harold Gowers, former head of Conservation at the British Museum. The consigner states that he received the sash from Ted Trotta of Trotta & Bono in 2008.

Condition

In very good overall condition, with small sections of beadwork missing and some breakage to the underlying twine; professionally mounted.

Provenance

Private collection of Wallace Gusler, Williamsburg, VA.
Trotta & Bono, 2/11/2008.
Ex-collection of Mrs. Linda Barnard Finer.
Ex-collection of Baptist Academy, Bristol, England, 1979.
Ex-collection of Dr. Andrew Gifford, 1784.
Ex-collection of Mr. George Holt, 1768-1771.

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