FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


The “Art for Archaeology III” fundraising event for the nonprofit Old Pueblo Archaeology Center will be held starting at 5:30 p.m. on Friday October 19, 2007, at The Mountain Oyster Club (6400 E. El Dorado Circle, Tucson). Chaired by southern Arizona artist Buck McCain (the Friends of Western Art organization’s 2005 Artist of the Year), this event features auctions of original art, quilts, and collectibles generously donated by artists and other members of the community to benefit Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s education programs.  Cocktails, light buffet, the event’s silent auction, and preview of the evening’s live auction items will begin at 5:30 p.m. Auctioneers Excelerate Auction Group will commence the live auction at 7:30 p.m. Cost to attend is $50 per person and advance reservations are required by October 12. For reservations call 520-798-1201 or email Old Pueblo Archaeology Center at [log in to unmask]  Persons who cannot attend but are interested in bidding may !
 
 submit proxy bids for auction items.

For more information about items to be auctioned and the donors who have contributed items, and for photos of some of the major artworks to be inclauctioned please visit the just-updated Old Pueblo Archaeology Center web site -- www.oldpueblo.org.  Just above the home page photograph you can click on the highlighted text ("The Art for Archaeology III Fundraising Auction is Friday October 19, 2007 Click Here For Details!") to get to the auction description page; then click on the highlighted "Click Here to View the Beautiful Artwork" line to see photos of art to be included in the evening’s live auction.

Some special items to be included in the evening’s auctions are several rare books and Native American art works that anthropologists Richard and Nathalie Woodbury of Amherst, Mass., have donated to Old Pueblo Archaeology Center. The items donated by the Woodburys include:

	- Two standard-size Hopi kachina dolls (shown in photo below) acquired by the Woodburys in 1947 from a Hopi couple at the village of Mishongnovi on the Hopi Reservation, Arizona.  Mark Bahti (Bahti Indian Arts, Tucson) examined these dolls on August 24, 2007, and said they are both representations of the Hopi “Cow Kachina,” and that each is worth around $800-$900 but could go for as much as $1,100 apiece if they were for sale in an Indian arts and crafts store.

	- Fourteen 2- to 4-inch-high kachina dolls that were given to Nathalie Woodbury by anthropologist Gladys A. Reichard (author of the 1936 “Navajo Shepherd and Weaver” book that the Woodburys have donated to Old Pueblo). The Woodburys said these were acquired about 25 to 30 years ago but the dolls are probably substantially older. Mark Bahti (Bahti Indian Arts, Tucson) examined these dolls on August 24, 2007, and indicated that the one with a black ruff around its neck depicts the "Zuni Warrior" kachina and is worth $60-$80; and that the other 13 are worth about $45 apiece.

	- The book “Outlines of Zuñi Creation Myths” by Frank Hamilton Cushing (1896, Extract from Annual Report No. 13:321-446. Bureau of American Ethnology. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.). This original edition, 8 1/8 X 12 X ¼ inches, features a handwritten message signed by Cushing on the front cover that reads:

	To Captain H L. Scott USA.
	With Cordial Regards of
	Frank Hamilton Cushing 

The 1896 Cushing book's printer-signature sheets for pages 393-408, 425-428, and 433-446 are still uncropped and uncut. On the blank page 447 is a pencil notation “P 330 reservoirs on Thunder Mtn.” The U. S. Army captain to whom the book was autographed was an officer in the U.S.-Mexican War and a chief in the Adjutant-General's department, and was in charge of settling Geronimo’s band of Apache Indians at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, following Geronimo’s surrender to General George Crook. The Captain Scott under General Crook is said to have been known among his Apache charges as a man of his word who had the welfare of the Indians at heart.


	- The book “Zuñi Breadstuff” by Frank Hamilton Cushing (1920, Indian Notes and Monographs No. 8. Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New York) is an original edition in good to very good condition. The name “Woodbury” is handwritten on the inside front cover. On the first turnable page inside the front cover is the handwritten notation “R + N Woodbury from LJR 1955” and a pasted-in sheet that reads “Ex Libris Gladys A. Reichard.” The following page bears the handwritten name that appears to read “P. E. Goddard.” Page number begins with the Title Page. On page 3 is the following handwritten note in pencil:

	1974 reprint by MAI,
	LC Catalog Card #74-84798.
	Pagination unchanged from p. 7 on,
	w/ [3] & [4] used for new preface - see next page 6

Onto page 4 of the 1920 Cushing book are pasted photocopies of the 1974 MAI reprint’s “Preface to the Reprint” referred to in the page 3 note, suggesting that the Woodburys or someone else copied the 1974 reprint’s preface pages and pasted them into this 1920 original edition of the book. There are handwritten numerals and notes on at least two of the book’s interior pages, and the on the blank pages 674 and 675 at the end of the book is a handwritten, penciled list of most if not all of the book’s illustrations referenced by plate and figure numbers. On the outside back cover is a handwritten, 3-line penciled note that appears to list names and 4-digit numbers, difficult to read.


	- The book “Navajo Shepherd and Weaver” by Gladys A. Reichard (1936 hardback first edition, J. J. Augustin Publisher, New York), a treatise on Navajo weaving, features a burlap outside cover in which the spine is slightly damaged. On the blank inside front cover is rubberstamped “R. and N. Woodbury” and a penciled note “Cambridge December, 1949.” On the blank frontispiece page is a penciled not “dup. bk. Outs. 4.00 stud. 3.00.” 


	- The book “Hopi Kachina Dolls With a Key to Their Identification” by Harold S. Colton (1949, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque) is signed by Harold S. Colton on the first blank page inside the front cover. On the blank inside front cover is pasted a photograph of a Hopi kachina doll and there are the following handwritten notations:

	Harry Tschopik, Jr.
	American Museum of
	Natural History, N.Y.
	____ . ____

	WOODBURY Purchased from
	Marion Tschopik
	AMNH, Nov. 1958

Looseleaf inside the Colton book are a photograph of a Hopi “Mudhead” kachina doll, a brochure, and two postcards addressed to the Woodburys, all of which will go with the book when it is auctioned. The brochure advertises a June 1988 Museum of Northern Arizona exhibition featuring Hopi kachina carver John Fredericks. One of the postcards advertises the June 1989 Museum of Northern Arizona Hopi Artists’ Exhibition and features a David Phillips photo of a Hopi “Koshare” kachina doll. The other postcard, dated April ‘04, features a Jerry Jacka photo of Hopi Kachina carver Jerry LaCapa carving a kachina doll in a house at the village of Walpi, and a handwritten message from “Evelyn” (believed to be Evelyn Brew, wife of Harvard University archaeologist J. O. Brew) to the Woodburys.


	- Original 1952 "Through your magic window" promotional poster for the Santa Fe Railroad's Super Chief, Chief, El Capitan, Grand Canyon, and California Ltd. trains, featuring illustration "Pueblo Indian Comanche Dancer - painted by an Indian artist"; published by R. T. Anderson, General Passenger Traffic Manager, Santa Fe System Lines, Chicago; 6.5" X 9.75", copper-foil-framed.


Hope you can join us on October 19!

Allen Dart, RPA, Executive Director
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
PO Box 40577
Tucson AZ 85717-0577   USA
 	(520) 798-1201 office, (520) 798-1966 fax
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 	URL: www.oldpueblo.org