Native American Totem Poles

Cowichan (Coast Salish) Thunderbird and Killer Whale totem by Harold Joe. Fine model pole carved by Cowichan master carver Harold Joe, whose Cowich...

Chief Shakes Raven pole by Ditidaht/Nuu-chah-nulth artist Raymond Williams. This finely crafted model totem pole is by Ditidaht/Nuu-chah-nulth mast...

This incredible and large model totem pole was carved by Wilson Williams (c. 1908-1965), a Ditidaht master carver known for his robust and bold mod...

This multifigure pole features six carved figures including a bear, wolf, raven, thunderbird, frog, and another small bird of some type. The pole i...

This delicate and finely painted pole was probably carved for Ye Olde Curiosity Shop (YOCS) sometime between 1910 and 1920. It appears to depict an...

This beautiful Ditidaht pole features five figures including a supernatural bird-like creature in mid-transformation, fish, killer whale, bear, and...

This large model pole features a singing human, probably a chief, in a woven-style hat over a sea monster of some sort. The style of the human face...

Coast Salish thunderbird totem with transverse killer whale. This unique Coast Salish (perhaps Squamish) model pole features a twist on the iconic ...

Large Mowachaht/Nuu-chah-nulth Model Pole by Jimmy John (1876-1988). This exceptional model pole is the work of Mowachaht master carver Jimmy John,...

This 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 thunderbi...

Large Muckleshoot Coast Salish six figure model totem pole by “Chief” White Eagle. This large model pole was carved by “Chief” White Eagle, a Muckl...

Kwakwaka'wakw thunderbird and Sisiutl model pole by master carver Ernie Henderson. A beautifully sculpted model pole by the late Kwakwaka'wakw mast...

This brightly painted, five-figured model totem pole features a thunderbird, inverted killer whale, human figure holding a wolf head, and bird (rap...

Important Ditidaht model totem pole by John T. Williams. John T. Williams was a Ditidaht carver, the son of prominent master carver Raymond William...

This pole is a model of one of the Thunderbird Totems of Alert Bay, a favorite image of mid-20th century totem makers. This pole was likely carved ...

Muckleshoot (Coast Salish) totem pole and captive ball. This unusual model pole features a carved captive ball – a standard American folk art tradi...

This model pole features an eagle over a killer whale and probably dates to the 1940s. The pole is rather sturdy, but the killer whale’s tail is fi...

This brightly painted model pole depicts a thunderbird over a bear and was created in 1969 by a Coast Salish artist, probably in British Columbia. ...

This 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 ...

This 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 ...

This pole is a model of one of the iconic Thunderbird Totem Poles of Alert Bay, BC. The pole was carved by Joe Shaw, an artist from the Ditidaht Na...

Moses Alexcee was a prolific Tsimshian maker from Prince Rupert who frequently carved for William Webber, the owner of the iconic Thunderbird Scene...

This Nuu-chah-nulth totem pole features a thunderbird over a raven. The thunderbird’s wings have been painted into wolf heads in profile. A colorfu...

Mowachaht/Nuu-chah-nulth “Seattle Pole” from Ye Olde Curiosity Shop. This is a clean, bright model of the iconic “Seattle Totem” that stands in Pio...

This pole was created in the Alaska Black Diamond Totems workshop near Ketchikan, Alaska. It was handmade by a studio of non-Native artists and fea...

This 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 or...

Makah Two Figure Pole by Young Doctor (ca. 1851-1934). This important historic pole by the Makah master carver Young Doctor features an eagle over ...

Ditidaht/Nuu-chah-nulth totem pole with frog base. Larger model totem pole by the Williams family of Ditidaht carvers featuring a wolf, fish, frog,...

Coast Salish (Suquamish or Duwamish) model of Seattle totem pole. This model pole is a Coast Salish copy of the iconic Tlingit Seattle Totem that s...

This model pole was carved by a member of the Amos family of carvers, who worked for Ye Olde Curiosity Shop (YOCS) in Seattle. It depicts the Thund...

This 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 t...

Makah totem by Young Doctor (1851 - 1934). Neah Bay, Washington. This monumental pole is a significant piece of Northwest Coast art and Seattle his...

(1918-1990). This very large 9'2" x 6'3" totem pole is a Tsimshian interpretation by George Mather Sr. of one of the famous Thunderbird Totems of ...

Northwest Coast cedar totem.Signed on back, "Indian Arts by Danny James." Unpainted. On bottom, "HP Haida beaver."PERIOD: Mid 20th CenturyORIGIN: N...

Inuit hand carved Argillite bear totem. 6".PERIOD: Late 19th Century ORIGIN: Arctic - Inuit, Native AmericanSIZE: 6"

Northwest Coast totem, hand-carved cedar with three central smaller faces nestled within two larger creatures; written on back "Canadian art produc...

Dudley Carter solid cedar totem. Important Northwest carver born in 1891; his most important work was the “Goddess of the Forest" - a massive scu...