Artemis Fine Arts and Arte Primitivo Auction Pairs Native American Art with Fossils and Meteorites

On September 15, Artemis Fine Arts and Arte Primitivo will hold an auction that juxtaposes Native American artifacts with fossils, meteorites, and other natural-history specimens. The sale is the first half of a two-day collaboration between the two houses. Day 1 focuses on Pre-Columbian and Native American material. Among the highlights are a monumental California basket woven with patterns that evoke rattlesnake markings, an ancestral Puebloan bird vessel, a rare Mississippian portrait pot, and fossilized remains of creatures that lived millions of years before humans. By placing Indigenous-made objects alongside deep-time natural history, the auction creates a journey from ancient human craftsmanship to cosmic and biological events that predate humanity. The event is organized by Artemis Fine Arts and Arte Primitivo, with the auction taking place on September 15. Further details about the second day of the collaboration were not provided in the source material.