A Guide to the Best of Southern California : GOING PLACES : Back to the Tribal

“TEN YEARS AGO, you might have paid $600 for an Indian basket or piece of pottery; today the same piece might sell for $4,000,” says Elizabeth Lees, producer of the Los Angeles Tribal and Folk Art Show (Nov. 10 and 11 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium; $6 admission). The pre-World War II period is represented by: traditional American folk pieces and quilts; Native American works, like the group of mid-20th-Century Hopi and Zuni kachina dolls pictured, and art and antiquities from Africa, New Guinea and Central America.

“Everything is guaranteed to be authentic,” Lees says. “The pieces were made by natives as functional or ceremonial objects and never mass-produced. There’s no airport art.” Los Angeles Tribal and Folk Art Show, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, 1855 Main St., Santa Monica; (213) 455-2886.