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Fri, May 29, 2026 11:00AM EDT
Lot 127

Northwest Coast Style Carved and Polychrome Painted Wood Model Totem Pole

Estimate: $50 - $10,000

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$0 $10
$100 $25
$500 $50
$1,500 $100
$3,000 $250
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$10,000 $2,500
$50,000 $5,000
A mid-20th-century hand-carved wood model totem pole executed in the Northwest Coast Indigenous style. The pole is constructed from wood and decorated with a polychrome paint palette of rust-red, yellow, brown, and black. The carving features a vertical stack of zoomorphic and anthropomorphic figures. From the top down, the figures include a watchman wearing a tiered potlatch hat, a seated figure holding a smaller figure, a crouching frog, a bird figure with a yellow beak representing a raven, another crouching animal, and a black-painted base figure with a protruding snout. The surface shows faceted tool marks from the carving process. The pole is mounted on a stepped square wooden base painted black. The reverse of the pole is flattened and fitted with a small wire loop for wall mounting. A rectangular area of white label residue is present on the reverse, though no text is legible.

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