Navajo Leather Pouch with Silver Buttons

Navajo Leather Pouch with Silver Buttons (image 1/1)
Pricing & History
Made of harness leather; strap and pouch are studded with 120 German silver domed buttons; stamped concha with small circular turquoise decorates pouch flap, pouch length 7.75 in. x width 5 in., strap length 27 in. fourth quarter 19th century Gilbert W. Dilley (1902-1996) begun collecting American Indian art at a young age. Introduced to the collecting world by a former Buffalo Bill show Cherokee performer, Dilley was told tales of American Indian culture. It wasn’t until 1926, after Dilley opened a law practice in Akron, Ohio, that his collecting habits burgeoned. His hobby as amateur archaeologist and his associations with archaeologists and collectors such as Warren K. Moorehead, Henry Clyde Shetrone, and Byron Knoblock also expanded his knowledge and collections. The same year Dilley opened his law practice, he purchased a portion of Edward E. Ayer’s (1841-1927) American Indian art collection. Ayer had made his fortune supplying timber to the railroad industry. His true passion however, lay in collecting American literature about Indians– books, manuscripts, and ephemera, such as a program for a Catlin exhibition. Ayer’s collection became one of the largest assemblages of historical and Americanist literature accumulated in the early 20th century. His donation of nearly 50,000 books and articles from his collection provided the read more
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