Model Totem Pole Item Number: A5330 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

A model totem pole depicting a man with copper, a bear with a raven in its mouth, and a thunderbird (from bottom to top). The man's black eyes are surrounded by a mint green area with black brows above. His cheeks are painted with a black curvi-linear pattern. He is painted with a light blue upper garment and a mint green lower garment. The copper that he is holding is painted with an upper section that has a small horizontal oval face with its facial features painted black. This face has a five-pointed red sun-like-shaped outline around it. There is a black hand painted at each lower corner of the upper section of the copper. The lower section of the copper is painted black with three pairs of upward pointing arrows with a vertical line down the middle. The bear's black eyes are surrounded by a mint green area with black brows above. The raven that is in its mouth has black eyes that are surrounded by a mint green area with light blue around the sides of the head, black brows above, and a red lined beak. The raven's wings, which are kept close to its body, each have two side-by-side pair feather sections painted mint green and red outlined with black. The thunderbird's black eyes are surrounded by a mint green area with black brows above and a red lined beak. The upswept wings each have six feather sections painted mint green and red outlined with black, except for the innermost feather section which is simply outlined with black. The chest has a face that is painted with black facial features.