Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
84.19.001
Accession#:
84.19
Credit Line:
Donated by the Juneau Rotary Club.
Object Name:
Pole, Totem
Title:
"Four Story" Totem Pole
Artist — Creator:
Wallace, John
Date:
1940
Description:
"Four Story" Totem Pole.
Totem figures from top to bottom: Beige man; black raven; green "monster'" frog; beige man holding red and black "V" shape with black figure (face missing) emerging from it; beige man with long dark hair parted in middle holding brown and gray otter in left hand and short black rod in right hand (figure wears yellow, blue, and black skirt, his feet coming out from under it in front); bird—shaped rattle (face missing); blue fish; halibut hook with small blue and orange figure; brown and black face and brown tentacles of octopus with circular designs of orange and white with holes carved in center.
Inscription: "JUNEAU WALKING TOUR" on wood plaque attached by two bolts.
Totem figures from top to bottom: Beige man; black raven; green "monster'" frog; beige man holding red and black "V" shape with black figure (face missing) emerging from it; beige man with long dark hair parted in middle holding brown and gray otter in left hand and short black rod in right hand (figure wears yellow, blue, and black skirt, his feet coming out from under it in front); bird—shaped rattle (face missing); blue fish; halibut hook with small blue and orange figure; brown and black face and brown tentacles of octopus with circular designs of orange and white with holes carved in center.
Inscription: "JUNEAU WALKING TOUR" on wood plaque attached by two bolts.
Notes:
Purchased from Haidas by Rotary Club in 1962. "Story Master" which resembles a totem pole, portrays Indian myth through series of carved "memory devices" or illusions placed 1 above another. The pole is read from top down. Stories included, top to bottom: "The Monster Frog" (top figures—frog, man, raven, Monster Frog); "Toeewunk and the other Land Otter Men" (shaman holding land otter); "The Shaman at Island Point Town" (Black Oyster Catcher rattle, octopus, halibut, halibut hook baited w/ super natural mouse & its spirit).
See Rotary publication & Foster's "Juneau Totem Poles". Carved about 1940 in Hydaburg — result of CCC program.
Pole originally stood in front of Naket Packing Co. cannery at Waterfall near Hydaburg. It was probably purchased through the assistance of Edw. Keithan, P.C.: R.N. DeArmond. See files. Illustrated / mentioned in: "Treasures of America" 1974, p.508.
Moved to 4th & Main location June 4, 1994 after restoration.
See Rotary publication & Foster's "Juneau Totem Poles". Carved about 1940 in Hydaburg — result of CCC program.
Pole originally stood in front of Naket Packing Co. cannery at Waterfall near Hydaburg. It was probably purchased through the assistance of Edw. Keithan, P.C.: R.N. DeArmond. See files. Illustrated / mentioned in: "Treasures of America" 1974, p.508.
Moved to 4th & Main location June 4, 1994 after restoration.
Search Terms:
Native
Haida
Mythology
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Government
Wood
Haida
Mythology
Sculpture
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"Four Story" Totem Pole
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"Four Story" Totem Pole