GUEST: Well, my grandfather was a, a donor to Bacone College, which was a Native American college in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

And one day, he put me in the car and we went to Bacone College, and we came home with this.

And, um, his friend Dick West carved it.

And, um, I don't know, like, if he commissioned it or if he just saw it, liked it, bought it.

APPRAISER: It's a really wonderful example by Walter Richard West, who was the head of the art department at Bacone College in Oklahoma.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: He's not really known as much for his sculpture.

He, he was a painter.

His paintings are represented in the, uh, Gilcrease Museum.

He also has paintings in the Philbrook Museum...

GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: ...which is in Oklahoma.

So what we're really looking at here is a wonderful example, and I, I can only use the word "rare."

I'm really impressed with its scale.

I'm really impressed with just the portrait itself.

When you look at that profile, you get a real sense of-- at first I thought, that's a Mohawk, right?

GUEST: That's what I thought.

I thought he was a Woodland Indian.

APPRAISER: Yeah.

But it probably isn't a Mohawk-- it's probably a roach.

You'll see that it actually scoops down, and there's a little indentation in there.

So this would have been attached up to, on the top of his head, and then it would have horsehair that would be coming off the side of it.

GUEST: Oh, cool.

APPRAISER: He's got a, a long loincloth, he's holding a rattle, um, and the title being Coyote-Warrior, it's up to interpretation.

We can use sort of a pan-Indian identity without being too specific, because it's hard to identify without having the artist here to really GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: explain the narrative of it.

GUEST: Right.

APPRAISER: But the provenance is really wonderful.

What was it originally purchased for?

GUEST: I think it was $250.

Is that what it was?

APPRAISER: That's a deal, I think, right?

GUEST: I, I think it's a steal of a deal.

APPRAISER: Yeah, that was way back when.

GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: That might have been a lot of money.

GUEST: (chuckles): It might've been, back then.

APPRAISER: In 1959.

GUEST: Yep.

APPRAISER: I would say that this, for insurance purposes, the value of this would be between $25,000 and $30,000.

GUEST: That's a motorcycle.

APPRAISER: (chuckles) GUEST: That's a Harley.

APPRAISER: Yeah.

GUEST: Wow.