Totem Pole Model
29-175-64
From: Canada | British Columbia | Vancouver Island
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 29-175-64 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Kwakiutl |
| Provenience | Canada | British Columbia | Vancouver Island |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Pigment |
| Description | Crouching human figure, holding knees pouting mouth open, above bear biting head of small human figure held between paws. Plug cut between chin and left shoulder of top figure. Black paint: top figure: face, pupils, headdress, flecks on body; bear: nose, eyebrows, face lines, lips, eyes , body; small figure: eye region, cheeks. Blue: bear: concave eye region; small figure: eye-region cheeks. White: eyes of large figure; traces on teeth and eye of bear. Brown on paws. Back hollows. |
| Height | 58 cm |
| Length | 13.5 cm |
| Thickness | 12.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Exchange with George G. Heye, 1917 |
| Other Number | 6/9483 - Collector Number |
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