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Artemis Fine Arts and Arte Primitivo are pleased to present their fourth joint auction on July 29–30, 2026. This premier two-day sale features an extraordinary selection of Pre-Columbian, Native American, Tribal, and Ethnographic art alongside rare antiquities and fossils—each lot backed by decades of trusted expertise and connoisseurship. In this image: Colima Pottery Zoomorphic Effigy Jar - Horned Lizard. Estimate: $800 - $1,200.

Maya Polychrome Corset-Form Vase, Glyph Band. Pre-Columbian, Maya regions, ca. 500–800 CE. Polychrome decorated pottery corset form vase, depicting three different figures, one seated and two standing, wearing very large, elaborate headdresses and costumes. Upper glyph band. 6" H × 5.5" W (15.24 cm H × 13.97 cm W). Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800.

Large Chancay Sewing Kit Basket | Weaving Tools, Textiles. Chancay, ca. 1000–1250 CE. Large woven grass type lidded sewing kit basket, filled with a multitude of various spindle whorl type weaving sticks and other weaving tools. A woven textile pillow, several textile fragments, a small woven sack, balls of thread, two small undecorated pots, a shell and an animal tooth, etc. 18" L × 8.5" H × 9.25" W (45.72 cm L × 21.59 cm H × 23.5 cm W). Estimate: $800 - $1,200.

Costa Rica Andesite Jaguar Head (from Metate). Costa Rica, ca. 500–1200 CE. Carved gray volcanic stone, probably andesite, head of a jaguar originally from a metate. Nicely detailed carved geometric decoration on his head, large open toothy, fanged mouth. Feline head type ears. Excellent ancient surface patina. Custom lucite display base. 4.25" L × 4" W (10.8 cm L × 10.16 cm W). Estimate: $500 - $600.

Group of Six Northeast US Lithics, Documented Provenance. Northeast USA, most probably ca. 1000 CE. Six different examples, including a gray knapped flint scraper, having a painted inscription:”Burlington Conn.” and collection # “0142”, and remaining traces of an early collection label. Additionally, old collection labels marked: “.in doorway of.riggs Cottage Place.(Octob)er 17, 1879”. Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500.

Atlantic Watershed Stone Smoker Figure, Costa Rica. Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed, ca. 10th–14th century CE. Carved gray volcanic stone seated figure, resting both arms on his raised knees, depicted holding his right hand to his mouth, in a smoking gesture. It has also been suggested that he is a shaman blowing “Life” smoke to cure the sick. Custom fitted block base. 5" H × 3" W (12.7 cm H × 7.62 cm W). Estimate: $800 - $1,200.

Two Nayarit Orangeware Bowls, Snake Motifs. Nayarit, post Classic period, ca. 300–600 CE. Two different orangeware pottery bowls, the larger example is intricately decorated on the exterior with a beautiful checker pattern base roundel with a wide band with snake-like elements, circular and dot elements, solid white band and upper rim band of linear elements. Estimate: $800 - $1,000.

Mississippian Ranch Incised & Campbell Applique Jars, Pair. Native American, Southeast or Midwest, Mississippian, ca. 980–1380 CE. Native American, Mississippian culture, Mississippi, ca. 980 to 1380 CE. A pair of similarly styled handmade pottery jars in mottled hues of gray and brown with spots of creamy white shell-tempering. Each sits on a round, stable base, with a bulbous body and short neck with a wide, flared rim. Estimate: $800 - $1,200.

Tarascan / Michoacan Polychrome Bowls | Serpent Decoration. Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Michoacan and Tarascan (Purépecha), ca, 800 to 1520 CE. Two pottery bowls decorated in polychrome pigments. The larger is a Tarascan ware example with white-over-red decoration on the exterior and a deep black band with a thin white rule over red on the interior. Estimate: $800 - $1,200.

Two Panamanian Gold Discs + Two Nose Rings. Panama, ca. 1000–1425 CE. Two matching sheet gold discs, each having a tiny suspension or attachment hole near the outer rim, both are very slightly concave. Possibly used as shirt embellishments. Estimate: $600 - $750.