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On November 16, 2026, Artemis Fine Arts will hold its "#2 Native American, Ethnographic, Ancient Art" online auction, showcasing the second installment of a lifetime California collection. Curated by Bob Dodge, the sale spans traditional Native American works—including Pueblo pottery, Navajo textiles, basketry, and historic Plains beadwork—alongside global ethnographic art from Latin America, Oceania, Africa, and Asia, concluding with Mediterranean and Near Eastern antiquities. Inuit Model Kayak, Hand-Sewn Sealskin over Pine Frame, Alaska. Estimate: $500 - $750.

Two Hopi Third Mesa Wicker Basketry Plaques. Native American, Southwestern United States, Hopi, Third Mesa. Two Hopi wicker plaques, each woven with dyed rabbitbrush wefts over sumac warps radiating from a central start. Estimate: $400 - $600.

Native American Apache Seed Bead Choker, Star Medallion and Cross Design. Native American, Apache. A vintage glass seed bead collar with a central fringed pendant, worked in white, cobalt, turquoise, green, orange, and pink. Estimate: $600 - $900.

Native American Red Pipestone Bird Effigy Pipe, Duck or Loon Form, 11.25 Inch. Native American, possibly Plains. A pipe carved from dusky red pipestone in the shape of a bird lying low and stretched out, as if gliding on water. The head ends in a long, blunt bill with a mouth line incised along each side. Each eye is a small drilled ring. A short cylindrical bowl rises from the shoulders. Estimate: $600 - $900.

Early Plains Beaded Hide Moccasins, Cheyenne / Arapaho, Parfleche Sole, Cross Design. Native American, Plains, likely Cheyenne or Arapaho. A pair of hard-soled moccasins made from soft, pale tanned hide, with tongues and tie-laces at the instep. Each vamp has a beaded cross worked in light blue, with crimson-red arms, yellow and dark-blue accents, and a small white square at the center. A Y-shaped fork of yellow and dark-blue beads rises from the top arm toward the tongue, and two short pendant bars sit on either side of it. Estimate: $800 - $1,200.

Comanche Brass / White Metal Armbands, Collection # MNA-27-1006, Two Pairs, ca. 1870. Native American, Comanche. Four upper-arm cuffs (armbands) forming two pairs, each cut from a single band of sheet metal and bent into a circle. The brass pair carries engraved scalloped borders along both edges. A central column of twisted, hatched lines runs between small diamonds and dots, and a short sliding loop over a row of punched holes lets the wearer adjust the fit. Estimate: $800 - $1,200.

Two Apache Fiddles, Painted & Incised Wood, One Signed George Starr Sr. Two Apache fiddles, each a hollowed wooden cylinder that was once strung and played with a bow, with a wooden tuning peg at each end. The first has a warm brown surface. Its decoration is incised and colored in red, blue, and yellow: zigzag bands, a feathered arrow, triangles, and a lozenge framing a diamond-shaped sound hole. Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Cherokee Rivercane Double Weave Basket, Stepped Cross and Diamond Design. Native American, Southeastern United States, Cherokee. A rectangular double-weave basket plaited from rivercane splints, with an open mouth and gently canted walls. Estimate: $500 - $750.

Large Mississippian Eel Effigy Bowl, Firing Clouds, Missouri, 9.8 Inch. A large and remarkably intact pottery bowl modeled in a subtle eel effigy form, its broad, rounded body and gently undulating rim punctuated by opposing lateral projections that suggest the head and tail, the darkened surface bearing traces of firing clouds that enhance its organic presence, reflecting a sculptural approach to utilitarian ceramics in which aquatic symbolism - particularly the eel, a creature associated with waterways and sustenance - may have held regional significance in the Mississippi River Valley, where this vessel was discovered in New Madrid County, Missouri. Estimate: $800 - $1,200.

Maya Eccentric Flint - Knapped Chert Ritual Blade, Abstract Notched Outline. Pre-Columbian, Guatemala, Maya. An eccentric knapped from a single thin slab of chert. Its tall, narrow outline is broken by a row of deep notches and squared shoulders. At the top, two small prongs rise like a crest or a pair of ears. The middle section steps from side to side in alternating lobes, and the lower end narrows into a short, rounded tab that may be a tang for hafting. Estimate: $600 - $900.