Lot 25
Unidentified Tlingit Artist
Additional Images
Provenance:
Private Collection, Toronto, ON
Note:
The design for this pole was commissioned by Chief Shakes VII (Kudenake/Charlie Jones) (1865-1944) and erected in 1897. It portrays the Thunderbird at the top and the one-legged fisherman Kayak and his strings of salmon.[1]
[1] Marius Barbeau, Totem Poles, Vol. II, (Ottawa: Dept. of Northern Affairs and National Resources, National Museum of Canada, 1964), 870.
Further Reading:
https://www.waddingtons.ca/art-of-the-model-totem-pole/