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We do not know very much about this pole. It is a confusing mixture of styles. We believe it to be a memorial pole to a member of the Eagle, Wolf , and Bear Clans. However, the carver makes us uncertain. The figure at the top has the wing style and coloring of the Eagle but the straight beak of the Raven. We are also unsure what he meant to tell with the human figure; it contains some element of the Frog Woman, a Tlingit mythological figure, but it may have been meant to represent the person whose pole this is. The bottom figures appear to be eating one another and again, we do not know if the artist meant to convey a story or not. The two tone face in the center probably relates that the person for whom this pole was carved died unpleasantly or violently; this is the usual meaning of a two tone face but the colors usually used in this case are red and black. |
