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    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Attr.: JIMMY JOHN (1876-1987) NUU-CHAH-NULTH, Model Totem
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Attr.: JIMMY JOHN (1876-1987) NUU-CHAH-NULTH, Model Totem
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    Attr.: JIMMY JOHN (1876-1987) NUU-CHAH-NULTH

    Model Totem
    cared and polychromed wood, 21.25 x 4 x 2.5 in (54 x 10.2 x 6.3 cm), measurements reflect dimensions without later added wood base;
    unsigned;
    carved and painted in a stacked arrangement with an thunderbird looking down, a coiled serpent clutched in its talons, atop a Wasco (sea) wolf, atop a three headed eagle, atop a bear clutching a human figure, with a model bentwood lidded box as the base.

    LOT 17
    ESTIMATE: $1,800 — $2,800
    PRICE REALIZED: $9,000.00

    Further images

    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) KENOJUAK ASHEVAK, C.C., R.C.A. (1927-2013) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET), Animal Kingdom, 1967 #44
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) KENOJUAK ASHEVAK, C.C., R.C.A. (1927-2013) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET), Animal Kingdom, 1967 #44
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) KENOJUAK ASHEVAK, C.C., R.C.A. (1927-2013) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET), Animal Kingdom, 1967 #44
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) KENOJUAK ASHEVAK, C.C., R.C.A. (1927-2013) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET), Animal Kingdom, 1967 #44
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 5 ) KENOJUAK ASHEVAK, C.C., R.C.A. (1927-2013) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET), Animal Kingdom, 1967 #44
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 6 ) KENOJUAK ASHEVAK, C.C., R.C.A. (1927-2013) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET), Animal Kingdom, 1967 #44

    Provenance

    A British Columbia Collection.

    Literature

    For examples of model totem by Jimmy John, see Michael D. Hall & Pat Glascock, Carvings and Commerce: Model Totem Poles 1800-2010, (Seattle, WA: University of Washington: 2011), p. 116 & 117.
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