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Painted model totem pole carved with several mythical and ancestral figures | Donald Ellis Gallery
Profile of a model totem pole carved with several mythical and ancestral figures | Donald Ellis Gallery

Model Totem Pole

attributed to John Robson, ca. 1851-1924
Haida
Haida Gwaii, British Columbia

ca. 1880

wood, paint

height: 43"

Inventory # CN3910

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PROVENANCE

Private collection, Pennsylvania
Donald Ellis Gallery, Dundas, ON
Private collection, New York, NY


RELATED EXAMPLES

Royal Ontario Museum, Cat. No. HN838 - See: Robin Wright, Northern Haida Master Carvers, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001, pg. 260, fig. 5.26
     
American Museum of Natural History, Cat. Nos. 16/8748 and 16/8754 – See: Ibid., pgs. 267 and 269, figs. 5.31 and 5.33
              
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Cat. No. 17836 – See: Ibid., pg. 258, fig. 5.24 for a house model