- Coast Salish Model TotemSKU: Q325AThis model pole is carved in cedar and mounted on an unusual triangle-shaped base. The pole was likely carved in the 1930s and features a thunderbird over a bear, clad in orange and black paints. There is a sticker on the back that reads "Guaranteed genuine, hand-made Indians of the Pacific ...
$450 - Tsonoqua/Dzunkukwa "Wild Woman of the Woods" TotemSKU: AF0249Tsonoqua/Dzunukwa, “The Wild Woman of the Woods,” is an important ancestor figure to the Kwakwaka’wakw people of British Columbia. A giantess that fills important cultural roles during the potlatch, she is best known as a wealth-bringing being to those who encounter her and as a creature that ...
$15,000 - Coast Salish Tunderbird and Bear TotemSKU: AJ0019A large, well-carved model pole that features a thunderbird over a bear that is holding a copper and human. The base is carved and painted with a humanoid face. This pole probably dates to the 1960s and was likely carved by a Coast Salish (Cowichan) artist for Ye Olde Curiosity Shop (YOCS). The ...
$1,200 - Squamish Coast Salish TotemSKU: AF0584A Squamish/Coast Salish pole that depicts an Eagle over a Human and Bear. This pole dates to the 1950s or 1960s and reflects a period when Squamish carvers were using brightly coloured paints and creating carvings that reflected pan-Indian influences. In particular, the human figure in the ...
$750 - Coast Salish Totem PoleSKU: AF1374Coast Salish multifigure model totem pole. An earlier Coast Salish model pole that features a bear, raven, frog, and anthropomorphic head on cedar base. The style of the carving points to a Seattle-area Coast Salish artist who worked for the Ye Olde Curiosity Shop in the first quarter of the ...
$2,200 - Coast Salish Totem by Wesley DickSKU: AG0607Coast Salish Model Pole from the Coqualeetza Indian School by Wesley Dick. A well-carved and painted model pole that was created as part of the Coqualeetza Indian School arts and crafts program by a student named Wesley Dick. Also known as Chilliwack Home, the Coqualeetza Indian School was ...
$3,000 - Coast Salish Totem by Marlin AlphonseSKU: AF0810Coast Salish thunderbird and bear nodel totem pole by Marlin Alphonse. Marlin Alphonse is a Seattle-based Coast Salish artist who learned to carve from his relative, Gary Rice. Alphonse’s carving and painting style are very similar to Rice’s, particularly in the depth of his carving and color ...
$750 - Coast Salish or Nuu-chah-nulth TotemSKU: AF0586Coast Salish or Nuu-chah-nulth three-figure totem pole. An earlier Coast Salish or Nuu-chah-nulth model pole that depicts a perched bird, perhaps a Raven, over what appears to be a Frog and Bird or possible Canine on the bottom. The simplified sculptural forms on this pole point to a Coast ...
$1,500 - Coast Salish Model TotemSKU: AF0585This model pole of the iconic “Seattle Totem” was made by a local Coast Salish artist. This model would have been created not too long after the original pole was installed in Pioneer Square in downtown Seattle. Salish carvers did not traditionally make multi-figure totem poles, but tourist ...
$3,000 - Monumental Salish TotemSKU: AF0247Salish totem depicting a human wearing a potlatch hat perched between the ears of an eagle at top, a human face in relief for the birds eyes, a small humanoid/bird figure standing at the base between the avian's figures wings with totemic insized accents. Red and black painted details. Hollowed ...
$20,000 - Matched Pair Monumental Salish Coast TotemsSKU: AF0246Matched pair of Salish Native American totem poles. Both identical. Carved as a thunderbird with spread rings separately carved and attached perched on the head of a human over a seated bear figure with a frog emerging from the ursine mouth. Original paint is weathered. One pole hollowed out in ...
$40,000 - Set of Three Coastal Salish TotemsSKU: AF0335Three coastal Salish carved totems from Southern Vancouver Island. Estimate circa 1900-20's. Includes a pair of structural house totems with notched tops for holding a beam. Each 10'4"H and a matching totem with eagle over a whale 9'11"H. Totems are just as they were collected still with lichens ...
$75,000 - Coast Salish TotemSKU: W254This multifigure pole features six carved figures including a bear, wolf, raven, thunderbird, frog, and another small bird of some type. The pole is unpainted and carved in red cedar. Although it is unsigned, this pole is almost certainly the work of a Coast Salish artist from Washington State. ...
$1,500 - Old Coast Salish TotemSKU: S987This model pole was likely carved by a local Salish artist in the Seattle area, perhaps Duwamish or Suquamish. The pole is carved in red cedar and features a raven, frog, another raven, and face – perhaps an anthropomorphic bear. This maker carved for Ye Olde Curiosity Shop early on in the ...
$900 - Old Coast Salish TotemSKU: S986Older model totem pole featuring a human in a chiefly hat over a frog and humanoid head. Although this pole has a note on the back that identifies it as Alaskan, it almost certainly the work of a local Seattle-based Salish artist, perhaps Duwamish or Suquamish. Model poles carved up and down the ...
$900 - Salish TotemSKU: S984This old model Salish pole dates to around 1900 and was sold out of the Hudson Bay Fur Trading Co. in Seattle, WA. The pole depicts an inverted killer whale, although the identities of the other figures are unclear. There is a formline human face in profile carved in relief and painted on the ...
$2,000 - Coast Salish Thunderbird TotemSKU: R1215Coast Salish thunderbird totem with transverse killer whale. This unique Coast Salish (perhaps Squamish) model pole features a twist on the iconic Thunderbird Totem Poles of Alert Bay. The model is loyal to the original poles, save for the addition of a transverse killer whale cutting across the ...
$5,000 - Muckleshoot Coast Salish Model Totem by “Chief” White EagleSKU: Q323Large Muckleshoot Coast Salish six figure model totem pole by “Chief” White Eagle. This large model pole was carved by “Chief” White Eagle, a Muckleshoot Coast Salish carver who created model poles for Ye Olde Curiosity Shop beginning in the 1940s. His style is characterized primarily by neon, ...
$4,500 - Coast Salish Model TotemSKU: Q17This brightly painted, five-figured model totem pole features a thunderbird, inverted killer whale, human figure holding a wolf head, and bird (raptor) at the base. Based on its style, this model would have been carved by a Coast Salish artist, perhaps from around White Rock, BC, in the 1930s. ...
$1,500 - Muckleshoot (Coast Salish) TotemSKU: P277Muckleshoot (Coast Salish) totem pole and captive ball. This unusual model pole features a carved captive ball – a standard American folk art tradition where a free wooden ball is carved from a single piece of wood. Above the ball is a seated eagle. Arguably, model totem poles are a North ...
$1,000 - Coast Salish Thunderbird and Bear TotemSKU: KK0630This brightly painted model pole depicts a thunderbird over a bear and was created in 1969 by a Coast Salish artist, probably in British Columbia. The pole is simply carved but sports an elaborate painting design in old original paints. 10 1/2" x 8" PERIOD: Mid 20th CenturyORIGIN: Plateau - ...
$450 - Coast Salish Five Figure Thunderbird TotemSKU: J1500This model pole was carved by a Coast Salish artist in British Columbia sometime in the 1950s or 1960s. It features a thunderbird over an inverted whale, bear, songbird (robin?), and an unidentified humanoid face. This pole is intricately carved and painted and packs a lot of figures into a ...
$500 - Coast Salish Model of Chief Shakes TotemSKU: G1641This is a truncated Coast Salish iteration of the Tlingit Chief Shakes Raven Pole of Wrangell, Alaska, dating to the 1930s. On the top of the pole is Raven’s grandfather in his chiefly hat, below him is the box of daylight, then Raven’s mother, and at the base a human being with a dagger. This ...
$700 - Pair of Cowichan/Coast Salish TotemsSKU: AE0616This pair of model poles were carved by Cowichan master carver Danny James, a Coast Salish artist who often produced carvings for Ye Olde Curiosity Shop. The poles depict thunderbirds over bears and are models of the famous Thunderbird Totems of Alert Bay, BC. The Cowichan people are a Coast ...
$900 - Coast Salish Model TotemSKU: A0721This model pole of the iconic “Seattle Totem” was made by a local Coast Salish artist. This model would have been created not too long after the original pole was installed in Pioneer Square in downtown Seattle. Salish carvers did not traditionally make multi-figure totem poles, but tourist ...
$3,500 - Coast Salish Model TotemSKU: A0710Coast Salish (Suquamish or Duwamish) model of Seattle totem pole. This model pole is a Coast Salish copy of the iconic Tlingit Seattle Totem that stands in the Pioneer Square neighborhood in downtown Seattle. The carving appears to be by a local Coast Salish artist, perhaps Suquamish or ...
$3,500 - Large Coast Salish Totem PoleSKU: Q1247This large 5'1" five-figure pole would have been made by a Coast Salish artist (probably Squamish) in the 1960s. The pole was purchased and moved to Anchorage, Alaska, at some point and spent 35 years outside a pawn shop there. The pole features a thunderbird (missing wings – can be replaced), ...
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