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Artworks
UNIDENTIFIED HAIDA MAKER
Model Totem Pole, 1919argillite, 10.25 x 1.75 x 2 in in (26 x 4.4 x 5.1 cm)
with affixed paper label, inscribed in blue ink in an unknown hand, "Massett, Q.C. IslL. / B.C. / 1919 / C.L. PATCH".
LOT 122
ESTIMATE: $2,000—$3,000
PRICE REALIZED: $1,800.00Further images
This excellent pole of classic form is illustrated in Marius Barbeau’s 1953 groundbreaking book on Haida myths as illustrated through argillite totem poles and other carvings, in the chapter discussing...This excellent pole of classic form is illustrated in Marius Barbeau’s 1953 groundbreaking book on Haida myths as illustrated through argillite totem poles and other carvings, in the chapter discussing various Thunderbird myths. The figures illustrated are a Thunderbird (or possibly a Raven) with down turned beak and status rings, the Mother Dogfish, and a crouching Bear with shamanic Frog. Although the pole is documented as having been purchased in Massett, Barbeau seems to suggest that it may have been carved by either Thomas Moody or Tom Price in Skidegate.Provenance
Purchased at Massett in 1919 by the Ottawa Private Collector Clyde Patch;
A New York Collection.
Literature
Marius Barbeau, Haida Myths Illustrated in Argillite Carvings (Ottawa: National Museum of Canada, Bulletin No. 127, Anthropological Series No. 32, 1953), fig. 181.
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