Wonderful Old Native American Carved Polychrome Totem Pole, Presumed Nootka green and gold and Dewitt Clinton for high

and Dewitt Clinton for high school--then moved to York

for serving

glazed the perfect shade of blue

and the hand-painted

Povungnituk

Wonderful Old Native American Carved Polychrome Totem Pole, Presumed Nootka green and gold and Dewitt Clinton for highThe patina on this beautifully carved small totem pole is fantastic, and the painting really wonderful, done in a relatively reserved palette of red, blue and black, with pale yellow for the dots on the wings of the eagle and sides of the figure below. I am not at all an expert, but believe this is most likely by a Nootka (Nuu chah nulth) carver from the SW Coast of Vancouver Island, and mostly likely dates to the earlyish 20th century. Unsigned, but