12-01-201812-01-2018
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December 1, 2018 10:00 AMCalender
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Haida Wood Model Totem Pole

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$923$750
Auction: American Indian & Ethnographic Arts - 3185BLocation: BostonDate / Time: December 01, 2018 10:00AM

Description:

Haida Wood Model Totem Pole, the lozenge-form base carved in the form of opposed totemic creatures, surmounted by a small totem with a triangular sea mammal's head supporting a predatory bird with separately carved outspread wings inserted at the sides and a voracious face devouring a frog on the underbelly, signed on the reverse "Charley George, Queen Charlotte Island," ht. 12 1/4 in.

Provenance: Private collection, Newton, Massachusetts; Sotheby's, New York, May 22, 1989, Lot 356.
Estimate $800-1,200


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