NATIVE AMERICAN ART APPRAISALS, INC., provides a number of appraisal, curatorial, and consultation services.

FORMAL WRITTEN APPRAISALS: For baseline, insurance, estate, non-cash charitable donation, equitable property dissolution, or resale and liquidation

• The Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP)
• The International Society of Appraisers' Code of Ethics (ISA) and Appraisal Report Writing Standards (ARWS)
• Consists of identification, evaluation, photography, research, and documentation

VERBAL APPROXIMATIONS OF VALUE (VAV): For appraisal fairs, estate sales, resale and liquidation, and general information

• Presented orally or by itemized listing
• May require research and travel
• Does NOT include photography or documentation

CURATORIAL: For physical and online exhibitions, in situ and traveling

• Collections planning
• Exhibit conception, design, and review
• Catalogs and didactics
• Lectures and presentations

CONSULTATION: For other appraisers, banks, curators, dealers, executors, galleries, insurers, lawyers, museums, and universities

• Correspondence/conversation requesting information or assistance
• Collections development (acquisition/deaccession)
• Object history and provenance research
• Expert witness
• Art juror/panelist