Totem Pole Model
29-175-463
From: Canada | British Columbia | Queen Charlotte Islands
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 29-175-463 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Haida |
| Provenience | Canada | British Columbia | Queen Charlotte Islands |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Pigment |
| Description | Flat in back. Four animals carved on front. Animal at top apparently coming down over top of pole with head and arms reaching to face below. This face grotesque-cheek lines appear to be arms, and jaw line, legs. Below this-a long-beaked bird. Animal head at bottom appears to have long ears (or perhaps fins). Most of painting in black, some red. One eye painted on post below mouth of bottom face. Eyes of lower 3 figures are like round balls. |
| Length | 62 cm |
| Width | 9.4 cm |
| Depth | 7.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Exchange with George G. Heye, 1917 |
| Other Number | 4672 - Collector Number |
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