Native American Folk Art
NATIVE AMERICAN STYLE
Native American broadly describes any Indigenous people in North America and encompasses hundreds of tribes and groups, all with distinct cultures. Native American–style furniture and decor likewise varies widely, from pieces created by Indigenous people to those appropriated by non-native designers.
Indigenous furniture’s rich heritage includes the bentwood boxes of the Northwest Coast carved from cedar for storing household or ceremonial objects. Generations of Native American people have made baskets for holding household items, with those in the Northeast using sweetgrass and those in the Southeast using pine needles and wicker. Artisans in the Plateau region wove watertight pieces like cradles from plant materials. Although these objects were intricately made, they were usually utilitarian rather than decorative.
The colonization of North America and the removal of Indigenous people from their lands led to the suppression of these practices. Many styles that used Native American motifs — such as Southwestern style, which was heavily influenced by the geometric patterns of Navajo textiles — have historically not involved Indigenous creators and, instead, have taken their traditions without their tribal context.
When decorating a home with Native American–style furniture, it is important to do so respectfully, by understanding the origins of motifs and objects and examining who profits from their sale. There are now Indigenous-led companies, such as Cherokee designer Cray Bauxmont-Flynn’s Amatoya and Totem House Design, promoting Indigenous work in furniture and home decor. Supporting Indigenous artists and artisans is essential to confronting the still pervasive issue of cultural appropriation in design.
Find a collection of Native American living room furniture, folk art, rugs and carpets, decorative objects and other items on 1stDibs.
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Style: Native American
Period: 20th Century
Northwest Coast Wooden Doll with Thunderbird, Eagle Mask
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Seated figure with Thunderbird mask; carved yellow cedar, Thunderbird mask (eagle) depicted as head on a seated human body. Arms are dramatically open and outstretched. Large, richly detailed Thunderbird Mask, permanently attached with oblong eyes painted red, black and white. Edge decorated with dyed (red) spruce root as simulated mask harness over shoulders and across the chest. Dance apron; Seated figure wearing an apron of shredded cedar bark. Held on to figure at the waist with woven cedar string and abalone shell on button at back. Approximately 7" wide/long by 4" high. Bench; carved from cedar. Decorated on the back with bear face, outlined with inlaid red dyed spruce root. Ears, eyebrows and nose of inlaid abalone shell. Eyes of inlaid fossilized ivory...
Category
1920s American Vintage Native American Folk Art
Materials
Cedar
Pair of Nuu-chah-nulth Model Totems
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
This pair of colorful larger Nuu-chah-nulth model totem poles were likely made for a curio shop in Seattle or Victoria sometime around 1915. The poles...
Category
1910s Canadian Vintage Native American Folk Art
Materials
Cedar
$9,900 / set
Alaskan Eskimo Lidded Basket
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Lidded Alaskan Eskimo globular basket. Made of coiled beach grass, with geometric checkerboard and diamond designs. Beautiful piece, great for display or careful continued use. Early...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Folk Art
Materials
Natural Fiber
Sterling Silver "Home Dancer" Kachina by Navajo Silversmith Jeffery Castillo
By Jeffery Castillo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
HOME DANCER KACHINA, 1974
Sterling Silver hand sculpted "Home Dancer" Kachina statuette by renown Navajo silversmith Jeffery Castillo (1949 - )
The "Home Dancer" measures 4.75 inch...
Category
1970s American Vintage Native American Folk Art
Materials
Sterling Silver
Plateau Beaded Cuffs
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Native American Plateau Indian beaded cuffs. With beautiful floral beading on green trade cloth with brass tacks and red border. Floral beadwork has colors of red, pink, white, and o...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Folk Art
Materials
Beads
$1,725
Pair of Papago Basketry Dolls
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Pair of Papago basketry dolls. Male and female, both with hats (one not photographed). With original sales tag “Arizona. Made by Sally Lopez at Santa Rosa Valley.” Ex. Dunning. Papag...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Folk Art
Materials
Natural Fiber
Alaskan Lidded Basket
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Alaskan lidded globular basket with knob handle. Featuring multi-colored geometric checkerboard designs around body and lid. Beautiful piece, great for display or careful continued u...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Folk Art
Materials
Natural Fiber
Eskimo Lidded Basket
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Alaskan Eskimo lidded basket with top knot of very fine weave. Tapered from bottom. Featuring semi-faded colored geometric designs on body. Great for display or careful continued use...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Folk Art
Materials
Natural Fiber
Pictorial Acoma Olla Pottery
By Acoma
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Hand thrown and painted pictorial Acoma top rim with geometrics below. Hand thrown, thick walled, signed on bottom B. Concho, Acoma, N.M. Primitive and "folky."
Period: Mid-20th century
Origin: Acoma
Size: 12" H x 11" W
Family Owned & Operated
Cisco’s Gallery deals in the rare, exceptional, and one-of-a-kind pieces that define the history of America and the Old West. Our pieces range from American Indian to Cowboy Western and include original items of everyday life, commerce, art, and warfare that tamed America’s frontier. Our 14,000 square foot gallery opened in 1996 in beautiful Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
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Native American, Pottery, Acoma Olla...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Good Antique Large Native American Basket -stickley era W7570
Located in Shamokin Dam, PA
Antique Large Native American Basket - W7570
This is a great Native American basket in very good condition. It is a very attractive, large bas...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Folk Art
Materials
Reed
$392 Sale Price
20% Off
Navajo Picture Writing on Muslin, Six Weasel People with Two Lizard Guardians
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Unknown
Navajo picture writing on muslin
Six Yeis With Two Water Creature Guardians
Muslin, mineral pigments, sand.
Navajo Medicine Man active 1947 - 1...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Folk Art
Materials
Other
Lillooet Lidded Storage Basket
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Lillooet lidded storage basket with polychrome imbricated design. Pedestal style. Traded for food in Washington, 5 miles from the Canadian border...
Category
Early 1900s American Antique Native American Folk Art
Materials
Other
Hupa/Yurok Hat Basket
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Hupa/Yurok basketry hat with imbricated dark and light brown banded stripe and geometric motifs. 3.75" H x 6.125"D.
Family Owned & Operated
Cisco’s Gallery deals in the rare, except...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Folk Art
Materials
Natural Fiber
$2,530
Papago Basketry Bowl
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Papago basketry bowl with geometric designs. Simple, but highly displayable. Would complement a handmade indigenous basketry collection or decor of a Southwestern style home. Circa 1...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Folk Art
Materials
Natural Fiber
Navajo Teec Nos Pos Area Weaving
Runner
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Large Teec Nos Pos; bright. 5'1" x 10'4". Nice natural colors in creams and browns with geometric patterns. Very little if any wear.
Origin: Navajo, Sou...
Category
1940s American Vintage Native American Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Large Golden Micaceous Pottery Bowl with Fire Clouds by Lonnie Vigil
By Lonnie Vigil
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lonnie Vigil (1949 -)
Micaceous Bowl
1994
8 inches H. x 13 inches in Diameter
This striking bowl is by renown master potter Lonnie Vigil of Nambe Pueblo.
Made from hand coils of micaceous clay, the surface is then slipped with micaceous clay and traditionally pit fired. Micaceous clay is so rich in the mineral mica that the mica's tiny gold-colored flakes impart a softly glowing, subtly textured surface to the finished pottery.
So it is not just the form, but the surface that is so stunning on this beautiful piece. The bowl was fired to a deep golden orange, with the surface patterned by fire clouds. These fire clouds are varied in coloration forming an exquisite pattern on the surface of the bowl.
Lonnie Vigil is the recognized master and innovator of micaceous pottery...
Category
Late 20th Century American Native American Folk Art
Materials
Clay
Alaskan Lidded Basket
By Eskimo
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Alaskan lidded basket. With beautiful green and red diamond design around body, mirrored on lid. Design with some losses. Still a highly displayable piece, great for a coastal cabin ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Folk Art
Materials
Natural Fiber
$1,380
Pair of Papago Platters
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Pair of Papago platters. Mid 20th Century. Figurative Papago with birds 9 1/2" x 2" and 11" x 1 1/2". Papago baskets are handcrafted of beargrass, yucca cactus (white or green) and D...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Folk Art
Materials
Natural Fiber
Navajo Native American Sterling Silver
Turquoise Squash Blossom Necklace
Located in Dallas, TX
Old pawn vintage Southwest Navajo Indian sterling silver turquoise squash blossom necklace. No apparent makers mark. Features ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Folk Art
Materials
Sterling Silver
Navajo Picture Writing on Muslin, Four Corn Maidens with Four Lizard Guardians
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Unknown
Navajo picture writing on muslin
Four corn maidens with four lizard guardians
Muslin, mineral pigments, sand.
Navajo Medicine Man active 1947 -...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Folk Art
Materials
Other
Amazonian Feather Storage Basket
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Feather storage basket
Rikbaktsa Tribe, Jurene River, Mato Grosso, Brazil
1990
Plaited fiber, wood, feathers, twined natural fiber, and cotton.
5 inche...
Category
Late 20th Century Brazilian Native American Folk Art
Materials
Other
Pair Plateau Parfleche Packets
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Matched pair of Plateau parfleche packets with diamonds and stylized flowers and brain tanned ties. Difficult to find a pair. Very nice, rare design.
The term parfleche was first co...
Category
Early 1900s American Antique Native American Folk Art
Materials
Other
$9,680 / item
Hupa/Yurok Basketry Bowl
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Hupa/Yurok polychrome basketry bowl/ Twined basket with stacked linear motifs in red and brown. 5.5" H x 9.5" D
Family Owned & Operated
Cisco’s Gallery deals in the rare, exceptiona...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Folk Art
Materials
Natural Fiber
$2,875
1920s Native American Bear Paw Snowshoes
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Native American bear paw snowshoes with tassels and black bear silhouettes. Early 20th Century excellent sample complete with yellow and fluffs on...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Folk Art
Materials
Wood
$1,500 / set
Navajo Crystal Area Weaving
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Navajo Crystal. Banded in geometrics. Soft muted colors. Great for floor or wall.
Origin: Navajo, Southwest
Period: circa 1930s
Dimensions: 32" x 47".
Family Owned & Operated
Cis...
Category
1930s American Vintage Native American Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Multi-Figure 7 Foot Nuu-chah-nulth TOTEM
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
This large pole was “donated to a church on the northern tip of Vancouver Island for a fundraiser” sometime around 1905. The pole is carved in a folk-art style that is correct for the period. The imagery on this pole is quite fascinating and includes a large bird whose wings form the face of a composite creature holding what appears to be a whale or fish. Below that is what appears to be a Sisiutl, or three-headed sea serpent. Under the Sisiutl is a pair of animal heads flanking the pole, perhaps wolves, over a colonial bald eagle. This pole is a large and early Nuu-chah-nulth totem carving...
Category
Early 1900s American Antique Native American Folk Art
Materials
Cedar
Pair of 1930s Tlingit Totems
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Tlingit culture is divided into two moieties, or groups: Eagles and Ravens. These groups, also called clans, are exogamous – which means they marry out to the other group – and are m...
Category
1930s American Vintage Native American Folk Art
Materials
Cedar
$8,250 / set
1930s Native American Ojibwe Snowshoes
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Native American Ojibwe Native made and used snowshoes with red and blue wool tuffs. Used but slightly. 58" x 12"
PERIOD: Early 20th Century
ORIGIN: Northeast - Ojibwe, Native America...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Folk Art
Materials
Wood
$1,200 / set
Sioux Child
s Moccasins
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Sioux child's moccasins. 5 1/2" brain tanned elk. Classic Sioux buffalo hoof design with yellow crosses with red faceted beads and commercial tanned elk hide.
Period: circa 1940.
Or...
Category
1940s American Vintage Native American Folk Art
Materials
Other
Native American Coushatta Lidded Pine Needle Basket
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Coushatta lidded pine needle basket with pine cone and needle décor two sides and top. This woven by L.C. John, the last of the great Coushatta basket...
Category
Late 20th Century American Native American Folk Art
Materials
Other
Native American Navajo Yei Weaving
By Navajo
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Native American Navajo Indian single Yei rug weaving. In great original condition. Portrays single yei figure in center with feathered arrow designs going up either side. On top and ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Colorful Plateau Cornhusk Native American Sally Bag
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Colorful Plateau cornhusk sally bag with geometric designs of green, blue and red linen. Canvas reinforced.
Period: First quarter of the 20th century
Origin: Plateau
Size: 6" D x 10...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Folk Art
Materials
Other
10 foot Navajo Crystal Runner/Floor Weaving
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Large Navajo Crystal runner with birds, bow and arrows and eagle feathers. Several different red dye lots, some fading, both sides the same. 4'4" x 10'10...
Category
1920s American Vintage Native American Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Papago Basket
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Large monumental handled Popago basket featuring nine eagles.
Period: Mid-20th century.
Origin: Papago, Southwest.
Size: 12" x 20".
Family Owned & Operated
Cisco’s Gallery deals ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Folk Art
Materials
Other
$5,750
Klamath Basketry Bottle with Lid
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Klamath basketry bottle. Finely woven basket in the shape of a bottle (not over a bottle) with a simple woven diamond pattern, "T" figures on rim and matching lid. Stunning display p...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Folk Art
Materials
Other
Pit River Basket
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Basket 7" wide x 6" height with crosses and stars.
Period: First quarter of the 20th century
Origin: Pit River
Size: 7" W x 6" H.
Family Owned & Operated...
Category
1910s American Vintage Native American Folk Art
Materials
Reed
$3,450
Panamint Shouldered Basket
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Highly decorated and finely woven shouldered basket with red wool decoration on shoulder
Period: Last quarter 20th century
Origin: Panamint
Size: 6" diameter x 3 1/2" height
Fami...
Category
Late 20th Century American Native American Folk Art
Materials
Other
Exceptional Polychrome Klickitat/Snoquamie Basket
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Stunning Klickitat/Nisqually polychrome basket. Extra fine weave, fully imbricated, hard sided basket with rows of polychrome zig zags. Perfect displ...
Category
1910s American Vintage Native American Folk Art
Materials
Other
"Juan Concho" Gold Tone by Carl Moon
By Carl Moon
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
"Juan Concho" gold tone photograph signed by Carl Moon; 8" x 10". Published "In Search of the Wild Indian" by Tom Driebe on page 144. This piece is in the original frame; was displayed in Carl Moon's studio and passed to his son and daughter where purchased. A copy of the book "In Search of the Wild Indian" comes with; rare and exceptional.
S OF CARL MOON
1903 to 1914
MS 285
Collection Guide
Born in Wilmington, Ohio, Carl E. Moon learned his craft as an apprentice to a photography studio. He moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, opened his own studio, and made pictorial studies of Indians in the region. Between 1907 to 1914, he worked for Fred Harvey...
Category
1910s American Vintage Native American Folk Art
Materials
Other
Pictorial Pima Basket
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Pictorial Pima basket with three horses and old purchase tag on bottom "Indian Craft Shop 12.95".
Period: First quarter 20th century
Origin: Arizona
Size: 4 1/2" x 9".
Family Own...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Folk Art
Materials
Reed
$3,000
Native Salmon Ladder Maquette
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Salmon ladder/rattle maquette by Lillian Pitt (1943 Wasco). Made of copper tubing and hanging cut copper salmon. Maquette for public commission at the Uni...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Folk Art
Materials
Copper
Large 1930s Navajo Crystal Area Weaving
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Navajo crystal area weaving, all naturals. Graphic, great natural colors. 5'5" x 8'7". Very little if any wear.
Origin: Navajo, Southwest
Period: circa 1930
Dimensions: 11'5" x 7'.
...
Category
1930s American Vintage Native American Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Alaskan Eskimo Basket
By Eskimo
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Alaskan Eskimo lidded basket. Featuring beautiful butterfly design around body and lid done in dyed colors of red and green. Great for display or continued use. Mid 20th century. Siz...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Folk Art
Materials
Natural Fiber
Native American folk art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Native American folk art for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage folk art created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include folk art, more furniture and collectibles, decorative objects and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with fabric, wool and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Native American folk art made in a specific country, there are North America, United States, and Canada pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original folk art, popular names associated with this style include Native American Art, Navajo, Plateau Indians, and Navajo Indian Art. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for folk art differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $90 and tops out at $75,000 while the average work can sell for $1,798.
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