Weekly Native American Artifact Auction
By Heartland Artifact Auctions Inc
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Jun 3, 2022
P O Box 1089 200 N 8th St. Quincy, IL 62301, United States
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WITH RELICS FROM THE NOW CLOSED THUNDERBIRD MUSEUM IN NEW JERSEY, AND ARTIFACTS FROM THE C. MICHAEL KUSSMAN COLLECTIOIN OUT OF MARCELINE MISSOURI, THIS SALE HAS "LOTS" TO OFFER!
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LOT 35A:
LOT OF SIOUX BEADS From the Thunderbird Native American Museum in NJ. Dorothy Middleton Nelson was the founder ...
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Sold for: $16
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Estimated price :
$15 - $10,000
Buyer's Premium: 15%
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LOT OF SIOUX BEADS From the Thunderbird Native American Museum in NJ. Dorothy Middleton Nelson was the founder, curator and proprietor of the Thunderbird Museum on Mt. Laurel Road during the 1930s through the 1960s. At one time it held one of the largest collections of Native American artifacts (nearly 50,000) in North America. Photo credit: "Dorothy's Dream: Dorothy Middleton and her Indian Artifact Museum" by O. Kirk Spurr.Dorothy's Dream, Dorothy Middelton and her Indian Artifact Museum- by O. Kirk Spurr, PhD. For nearly fifty years Dorothy Middleton Nelson and her collection of Indian archaeological and ethnological materials was reputedly the fourth largest private collection in North America at the time.
