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

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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

Featured Artifact

Hopi Canteen by Nampeyo

Bird in Flight
c. 1900
191008-01 Hopi Canteen; Nampeyo;Bird in Flight c. 1900

 6 1/2" deep x 8 1/2" tall x 8" wide  The handles of the canteen have medial grooves, as are characteristic of Nampeyo canteens; the front “belly” of the pot is particularly bulbous, typical of pre 1900  jars. 
A wonderful and quite sculptural form with confident painting. In original, non-restored condition.
Nampeyo (1859 –1942) was a Hopi-Tewa potter who lived on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona. Her Tewa name was also spelled Num-pa-yu, meaning "snake that does not bite".
She used ancient techniques for making and firing pottery and used designs from "Old Hopi" pottery and sherds found at 15th-century Sikyátki ruins on First Mesa. Her artwork is in collections in the United States and Europe, including many museums like the National Museum of American Art, Museum of Northern Arizona, Spurlock Museum, and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University.
A world record for Southwest American Indian pottery was declared at Bonhams Auction House in San Francisco on December 6, 2010, when one of Nampeyo's art works, a decorated ceramic pot, sold for $350,000





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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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