Sale 1882
New York
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3 October 2007
Price realised
USD 11,875
Estimate
A CARVED AND PAINT-DECORATED INDIAN PRINCESS PROBABLY NEW YORK, 19TH CENTURY 42 in, high, 13 in. wide, 13 in. deep (overall)
Provenance
The Haffenreffer Collection of Cigar Store Indians, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1956
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Literature
Frederick Fried, Artists in Wood (New York, 1970), p. 238, fig. 229.
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