Second Auction Catalog from Paris Auction Company - old Hopi Katsina dolls, gourd rattles, Katsina masks, fetish-like sculptures, bull roarers, Navajo masks [SOLD]

Second Auction Catalog from Paris Auction Company - old Hopi Katsina dolls, gourd rattles, Katsina masks, fetish-like sculptures, bull roarers, Navajo masks
E&ve - estimations ventes aux enchères Auction House, Paris France

On 1 June 2015, Eve Auction House in Paris held an auction of American Indian, Pre-columbian, and African art.  The American Indian items included large selections of older Hopi and Zuni Katsina dolls, katsina dance tabletas, BAE Annual Reports on Katsinas, shields and old Katsina masks.  Click here to see that catalog.

Six month later, on 7 December 2015, E&ve - estimations ventes aux enchères Auction House held another auction with 100 items of Native American property.  Approximately a third of the items were outstanding old Hopi Katsina dolls, there was a gourd rattle or two, a dozen Katsina masks, and some carved fetish-like sculptures, bull roarers and some Navajo masks and fetishes.

I do not know if the Navajo objected to the sale of their patrimonial items or not, but, once again, the Hopi did protest and requested that the masks be removed from the sale.  The auction house refused to remove them, and the sale went forward.

We are presenting this catalog for sale because the 30 katsina dolls in the auction, for which the Hopi did not object, are outstanding examples that any collector would enjoy seeing.