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Description

A model totem pole depicting an animal with wing-like features below holding an upside down human as well as a frog and face, and a bird with a human and a frog in front of it (from bottom to top). The animal at the bottom has circular black eyes surrounded by a tapering black oval and a red area with black brows above, nostrils, black u form ears, an open black lined red mouth showing fourteen plain teeth, black limbs, and three-feathered red and black u form side wings that have a black eye and beak form and a red split u along the upper part. The upside down human has circular black eyes surrounded by a red circle with black brows above, a triangular nose with black nostrils, a red mouth, and a black dashed body. The frog is facing downward with circular black eyes surrounded by a red area with a black dashed nose with black nostrils and a green body. The face has circular black eyes surrounded by a red area with black brows above, a black dashed nose with black nostrils, a black lined red mouth, and four horizontal black lines across each cheek. The bird at the top has circular black eyes surrounded by a plain tapering oval and a red area with black brows above and a green forehead, a red lined black beak, black u form and vertically lined ears. A black dotted neck, and four-feathered black u form side wings that has a red and black eye form along the upper part. The human in front has similar facial features to the one below it but has a green body and is standing with his hands in front. The frog below in front has similar features but with a plain nose. A standing black bear is at either side of this frog. Nails attach it to a square base.

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This pole is very similar to another model pole that was indicated to have been carved by an artist named Sam Jackson, in Port Renfrew, BC, ca. 1940 (likely a Pacheedaht carver). However, based on the interlacing of smaller figures and some of the sculptural features on this pole, it appears to be an interpretation of a more northern style of pole, perhaps Tsimshian or Nisga'a? (Christopher Smith, 2021)

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