Native American Carvings & Totem Poles

Inuit carved whale hunter of fossilized walrus ivory. Hunter holding a spear standing atop a whale resting on a baleen base. No maker's mark. These...

Inuit carved puffins with nest of fossilized walrus ivory on whale bone vertebrae rock. These carvings were usually small carvings from walrus ivor...

Inuit carved polar bear on ice by F. Kiyukou. Smooth fossilzied walrus ivory bear with baleen embellishments on fossilized walrus tusk base.These c...

Alaskan Inuit hand carved sculpture of fossilized walrus ivory. Depicts a hunter, made by Justin Tuilana. The figure is in a parka and holding a sp...

Nuu-chah-nulth model primitive totem of red cedar.PERIOD: Mid 20th CenturyORIGIN: Northwest - Nuu-chah-Nulth, Native AmericanSIZE: 8"

Painted Nuu-chah-nulth model totem of red cedar. 8"PERIOD: Mid 20th CenturyORIGIN: Northwest - Nuu-chah-Nulth, Native AmericanSIZE: 8"

Rick Williams (Nootka / Nuu-chah-nulth, b. 1955). "2' Red Cedar Seattle Pole" painted wood sculpture hand carved by Rick Williams and signed with t...

Inuit scrimshawed walrus ivory cribbage board with Inuit in kayak throwing spear at walrus one side, and seal sunning itself on an iceburg on the o...

Three miniature Inuit carved musk ox of fossilized walrus ivory by RB Kokuluk. RB Kokuluk, an Inuit Eskimo, has had his work displayed many times. ...

Miniature Inuit carved sea lion of walrus ivory. Textured body with natural ivory colors of creams. No maker's mark. These carvings were usually sm...

Very small miniature Inuit carved walrus of fossilized walrus ivory. Signed "Sepak" on bottom. The early works were, usually, small carvings from w...

Inuit carved owl ofwalrus ivory on fossilized base. Smooth body, with natural ivory colors of creams and browns. No maker's mark. These carvings we...

Inuit carved owl ofwalrus ivory on fossilized base. Smooth body, with natural ivory colors of creams and browns. No maker's mark. These carvings we...

Inuit carved Eskimo hunter in kayak of warus ivory. Smooth forms with natural ivory colors of creams and browns and baleen embellishments. Kayaker ...

Inuit carved goose of walrus ivory on fossilized base. Smooth body with scrimshaw wings on fossilized base with natural colors of creams and browns...

Inuit carved goose of walrus ivory on fossilized base. Smooth body with scrimshaw wings on fossilized base with natural colors of creams and browns...

Inuit carved walrus of fossilized walrus ivory. Signed "Sepak" on bottom. The early works were, usually, small carvings from walrus ivory, represen...

Inuit carved spirit mask of wood and soapstone with feathers. On rock base. Unmarked.PERIOD: Late 20th CenturyORIGIN: Arctic - Inuit, Native Americ...

Alaskan cedar totem pole hand-carved with the iconic formline style zoomorphic and anthropomorphic beings. Varnished and painted in hues of yellow,...

Inuit carved miniature biliken of fossilized ivory.PERIOD: Mid 20th CenturyORIGIN: Arctic - Inuit, Native AmericanSIZE: 5 1/4" x 1 1/4"

Six-figure totem with thunderbird at top - just under 12 ft. Original paint; est. last qtr. 19th cty. Collected by Marilyn Carter, author of Legend...

Tlingit three figure totem pole. A Tlingit model pole that is a version of the Chief Kyan Totem Pole of Ketchikan, Alaska, featuring a Crane, Thund...

A 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...

This pole is almost certainly the work of Quatsino Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw artist Robert Fuller. It features a thunderbird over bear eating a salmon. Fulle...

Ditidaht/Nuu-chah-nulth Thunderbird Model Pole by Ray Williams.A smaller model pole by Ditidaht master carver Ray Williams (ca. 1933-1988) that fea...

Ditidaht/Nuu-chah-Nulth multi-figure model pole by the late John T. Williams. This pole is deeply carved and brightly painted in the Williams famil...

Coast Salish multifigure model totem pole. An earlier Coast Salish model pole that features a bear, raven, frog, and anthropomorphic head on cedar...

A large pair of model poles that depict the Tlingit Chief Shakes Raven pole of Wrangell, Alaska. The poles tell the story of how Raven stole the su...

Nuu-chah-nulth/Ditidaht two-figure model totem pole. A well-carved Nuu-chah-nulth/Ditidaht model pole that features a Thunderbird with anthropomorp...

An elegant four-figure model pole created by a Tlingit artist sometime around 1900. This pole features an anthropomorphic bear head over a frog, ra...

Northwest Coast Nuu-chah-Nulth two-figure totem pole. A two-figure model pole that features a Raven over an inverted Killer Whale. This pole featur...

Northwest Coast model totem pole, possibly Nuu-chah-nulth. An unusual, single-figure pole on a large, cylindrical base. The humanoid figure on this...

Coast 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 Coq...

Coast Salish thunderbird and bear nodel totem pole by Marlin Alphonse. Marlin Alphonse is a Seattle-based Coast Salish artist who learned to carve ...