Artemis Fine Arts
will host its
American Frontier | Ethnographic | Tribal Art auction
on August 24, 2026, at 9:00 AM GMT-6, live from Louisville, Colorado. Featuring a diverse array of legally acquired and guaranteed works, the sale brings together historic artifacts from the American, Spanish, and Mexican frontiers alongside exceptional Native American, Ethnographic, Tribal, Oceanic, and Spanish Colonial pieces. In this image:
Permian Dimetrodon Fossil Front Leg in Matrix - Articulated Foot with Claws
. Estimate: $12,000 - $18,000.
Monumental Spanish Colonial Wood Santo, Virgin Bulto, Embedded Bullets
. North America, Mexico, Spanish Colonial, ca. 1800–1899 CE. A monumental santo carved from a single baulk of hardwood, standing frontal with hands drawn together at the breast in prayer. A veil falls in heavy lobes framing the face; the mantle breaks into broad vertical folds tapering to a plain plinth base. Estimate: $7,500 - $11,000.
Woolly Mammoth Ivory Tusk Fossil on Wood Stand
. North America, Alaska or Siberia, Late Pleistocene Epoch, ca. 1 million to 10,000 years ago. A substantial woolly mammoth tusk presented in a sweeping natural curve, its elongated form displaying the characteristic arc and taper that define these iconic Ice Age remains. Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000.
Spanish Horseman's Belt Pistol, French-Pattern Lock, Gunmetal Mounts
. Southern Europe, Spain or Spanish colonial America. A horseman's belt pistol built for close work, its round smoothbore iron barrel running back to a blonde hardwood stock whose graceful downswept butt fills the palm. Estimate: $5,000 - $7,500.
Cimolichthys nepaholica Fossil Fish Plaque, Niobrara Chalk Kansas - Cretaceous
. North America, Western Interior Seaway, Niobrara Chalk Formation, Kansas, Late Cretaceous. A striking wall-mounted fossil plaque displays the predatory teleost Cimolichthys Nepoholica in rich coffee-brown relief against an ochre matrix, the vertebral column running in a near-continuous chain with a sweeping rib cage, splayed cranial elements, and fin rays that read like a textbook of ancient anatomy. Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000.
Exhibited Maya Palenque Rubbing - Temple of the Cross
. Anonymous, possibly Merle Greene Robertson (American archeologist, 1913-2011). Rubbing of Pacal from the Sanctuary Tablet in the Temple of the Cross, Palenque, Mexico. Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000.
Spanish Armorial Vellum Bifolium, Cuatro Costados Leaf
. Western Europe, Iberian Peninsula, Spain. Western Europe, Iberian Peninsula, Spain, ca. 1600–1900 CE. A single vellum bifolium painted on both sides in body color heightened with gold, forming four illuminated pages, each with one armorial achievement within its own painted border. Estimate: $2,750 - $4,000.
Rare Fossil Eurypholis Fish with Stomach Contents
. Ancient Seas, Near East, Lebanon, Haqil (Byblos region), Late Cretaceous period, ca. 100 to 95 million years ago. A well-preserved fossil specimen of Eurypholis boissieri, a prehistoric marine ray-finned fish of the aulopiform group, presented in fine detail against a light limestone matrix. Estimate: $3,000 - $4,500.
Diquis Tumbaga Frog Pendant - Lost-Wax Cast Gold Alloy Amulet
. Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Diquis. A diminutive frog cast in warm tumbaga, its body reduced to the essentials: a rounded muzzle and beaded eyes, a spine ridged along a compact torso, and hind limbs splayed into broad flattened paddles that read as much as ceremonial blades as anatomy. Estimate: $2,250 - $3,500.
Navajo Handspun Wool Transitional Rugs, Group of 3
. Native American, Dine (Navajo), American Southwest. Three handwoven wool textiles from the looms of the Dine, gathered out of the high mesa country where the Four Corners hold their geometry against the sky. Each was raised on an upright loom of cottonwood and juniper, the warps tensioned by hand, the wefts beaten home with a hardwood batten of the kind passed through the family across generations. Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500
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