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Model Totem
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Model Totem
Model Totem

Model Totem

Date1919
Mediumwood, paint
DimensionsOther: 7 × 9 × 57 cm (2 3/4 × 3 9/16 × 22 7/16 in.)
ClassificationsCeremonial Objects
Paper Field ReferencesCMH VII-B-1312
Object numberHRC 01312
Descriptionmodel of a totem pole. figures from top to botttom; a small animal, borken off and missing, only the forepaws remain; a beaver with a small bird; and an animal with a bear like head with sharp camine teeth, and a bird's body, wings and tail feathers. back of pole hollowed.
collected in Masset
Exhibition HistoryNGC Canada (1927)
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