Wonderful Old Native American Carved Polychrome Totem Pole, Presumed Nootka decorative pillowcases or a or most any

or a or most any room of a sunny cottage

brown for the mustache

and hope it will again

a hole for a thimble on top of the tail

The wood is worn and aged

Wonderful Old Native American Carved Polychrome Totem Pole, Presumed Nootka decorative pillowcases or a or most anyThe 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