AAIA, LLC
Specializing in Fine Antique American Indian Art & Artifacts
A Gallery of the Greater Seattle, Washington Region

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Website last updated 1-21-2020

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  • Specialize in North American Indian art and artifacts from the 19th and 20th centuries
  • Primarily acquired from private estate collections. 
  • Serve the Greater Seattle, Washington area with our gallery by appointment only

Important Works!

Don Lelooska (1933-1996), Kwakiutl Sun Figure; 21" x 20"; late 20th century​

A spectacular work by the master.  

“Chief Don Lelooska, (1933-1996) was well-known in the Pacific Northwest as a Native American artist and storyteller. Of “mixed-blood” Cherokee heritage, he was adopted as an adult by the prestigious Kwakiutl Sewid clan and had relationships with elders from a wide range of tribal backgrounds. Initially producing curio items for sale to tourists and regalia for Oregon Indians, he emerged in the late 1950s as one of a handful of artists who proved critical in the renaissance of Northwest Coast Indian art. He also developed into a supreme performer and educator, staging shows of dances, songs, and storytelling. During the peak years from the 1970s to the early 1990s, the family shows, with Lelooska as the centerpiece, attracted as many as 30,000 people annually.”


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Featured Artifact

Walrus Tusk Carving by Sam Dimmick, Nome

​Symbol of Authority for the Chief of Nunivak

Tuesday Talk with Matt Wood

Come visit our new online lecture discussions on various topics surrounding collecting Antique American Indian Art

Meet Owners Matt and Len Wood
In Business For Over 45 Years

Of Special Note:
The Pottery of Maria Martinez

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With the largest collection of Maria Martinez pottery available today, we specialize in all forms and signatures of Maria's works.

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  • 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