CINCINNATI, OHIO — A Sioux quilled and beaded hide shirt, fourth quarter Nineteenth Century, led Hindman’s first session of Native American art on April 21, selling for $40,950, including buyer’s premium. Thread and sinew-sewn with brightly quilled panels on the sleeves, shoulders and bib, the shirt was further embellished with its bib surrounded by medium blue dark blue and red white-heart beaded lanes. The shirt was enhanced with ermine tails wrapped with red wool and brown hair locks, blue and red pigment. With a 29-inch length, it measured a 40-inch chest. The overall sale offered early material of the Eastern Woodlands and Great Lakes, Nineteenth Century ledger art, weaponry, beadwork, historic and modern Puebloan pottery and paintings, and ethnographic objects from the Arctic. A more extensive review of both sessions will follow.