Model Totem Pole

Item number A5334 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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A model totem pole depicting a man with a headdress and a wolf with a whale (from bottom to top). The wolf is painted with black eyes, a red nose, and dark green decoration around the sides of its head, and its body is painted red. The whale is painted black with dark green accents on its body and red dots along its lip line. The whale's head is in the wolf's mouth while its tail is in between the wolf's legs. The man has black eyes, black brows, and a black curled and 'spiked' moustache. His headdress has six flat upward pointing angular protrusions painted dark green, and red. He is painted with a dark green upper garment and a red lower garment.