AAIA, LLC
Specializing in Fine Antique American Indian Art & Artifacts
A Gallery of the Greater Seattle, Washington Region
Website last updated 4-17-2019
AAIA,LLC
Specializing in:
North American Indian art and artifacts from the 19th and 20th centuries primarily acquired from private estate collection.
We serve the Greater Seattle, Washington area with our gallery and warehouse by appointment only
Specializing in:
North American Indian art and artifacts from the 19th and 20th centuries primarily acquired from private estate collection.
We serve the Greater Seattle, Washington area with our gallery and warehouse by appointment only
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Francis Horne Totem Pole
14' x 25" x 16" This pole use to reside in The Governor Hotel, Portland, Oregon (since renamed The Sentinel Hotel). When the hotel upgraded with a new fire sprinkler system, they had to lower the ceiling and this totem was then too tall to fit. It was sold to a private collector who has recently sold it to AAIA. The totem is titled "Three Watchmen". The pole represents three watchmen who are positioned to watch over the community. The watchmen are wearing potlatch hats, the rings representing the number of potlatches the family has given. The watchmen are followed by Bear, a crest of Francis Horne's family. The human nestled in the paws of the bear is the carver Francis Horne, the human representation of his family crest. Horne, b. 1954, is a Coast Salish Native carver living on Vancouver Island in the providence of British Columbia, Canada. His graphic design skills enable him to have a unique style that stands out among today's contemporary Native Northwest Coast carvings. Francis's boyhood dream was to be a a"Native Carver" and so, at the feet of the Elders, he learned the old ways of carving and design. In the great longhouses, he heard the songs and saw the dances of his people, he grew to understand the beauties and subtleties of his culture and manifested his experiences through his carvings. Francis Horne has become an internationally acclaimed artist with pieces in private collections around the world. He completed a major carving for the Canadian High Commission in Singapore and created a piece owned by former U.S. President, Ronald Reagan. The Variety Club International commissioned a pole for the Stanley Park Children's Zoo in Vancouver. The City of Duncan, B.C. is home to five of Francis's poles, one of which is an extremely rare entrance pole. Horne also has work in the collections of Japan, Germany and Switzerland, as well as many pieces installed in various cities in Canada and the U.S. Call or email us for details.
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Announcing:
The Museum of the First People
Opening Fall 2019
A new museum dedicated to the arts and artifacts of Native North America.
The Museum will be located with the AAIA gallery location in the Bothell Business Park, WA.
More detail to come!
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Of Special Note:
The Pottery of Maria Martinez
With the largest collection of Maria Martinez pottery available today, we specialize in all forms and signatures of Maria's works.
Click Here to See The Collection!
IF you don't see it on our website, email us your wish list!
We may have it in stock but not yet online.
Call Direct 949-813-7202 if you have questions.
- Always Buying and Consigning:
- Northwest Coast Wood Carvings, Masks and Totem Poles and related items
- Navajo Rugs and Navajo Blankets, Serapes, Chief Blankets, Regional Rugs, Ganado, Two Gray Hills, Crystal, Toadlena, Raised Outline, Teec Nos Pos, Shiprock Yei, Pictorials
- Southwest, California and Northwest Basketry : Alaskan Eskimo Apache Attu Chemehuevi Chumash Columbia River Gabrielino Hopi Hupa-Karok-Yurok Kawaiisu Klamath Maidu Makah Mission Modoc Mono-Miwok-Paiute Nootka Northwest Papago Panamint Pima Pit River Plateau Pomo Siletz Tlingit Tubatulabal
- Pueblo Pottery - Prehistoric, Historic, Early Contemporary and Contemporary; Acoma, Cochiti, Isleta, Jemez, Laguna, Nambe, Ohkay Owingeh (San Juan), Pojoaque, Sandia, San Felipe, San Ildephonso, Santa Ana, Santa Clara, Santo Domingo, Taos, Tesuque, Zia, Zuni
- Hopi Kachinas Dolls
- Silver and Turquoise jewelry, Old Pawn through Contemporary: Hopi, Navajo and Zuni
- Plains and Plateau Beaded Items and Artifacts
- Weapons: Bow and Arrows, Clubs, Knives, Spears
- Fine Art - Paintings, Photographs including Edward Curtis, Lithographs
- Early Man Artifacts