Description
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Outstanding Early Large Nuu-chah-nulth or Salish totem Circa 1900
Date: 1900-1910
Artist: Nuu-chah-nulth
Materials: Yellow cedar and paint
Dimensions: 45 ½” T x 4”x 3 ½”
Description: A fine museum quality large early example of striking model totem pole. Painted in great soft and subtle original pigments in a well-preserved original condition. Noted imagery of an Eagle, followed by a heron holding the tail of a seal, the seal is biting a halibut, an ascending otter is also biting the halibut, human face with large nose whose hand are holding a descending otter, a human head with a grimacing face is at the bottom.
Provenance: Moses B Cotsworth (1859-1943) Vancouver BC. His Grandson Dr. John Priestman (d1991) Vancouver BC . His wife Margaret Priestman (1919-2010) Vancouver BC. Donald Ellis Gallery
