Indios de la costa noroeste
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Las leyendas solo están disponibles en alemán o inglésOn this detail of a fallen totem pole in Ninstints, a frog peers playfully from under the mighty tail fin of a killer whale. Forty years ago the delicately carved details on the frog's head-the large eyes and small nostrils-were still clearly visible.
Las leyendas solo están disponibles en alemán o inglésIt is only possible to guess what the heraldic animal on this badly weathered totem pole at the edge of the forest might be. The two upper incisors tell us that it must be a beaver. A frog sits between his front legs. Barely recognizable between its hind legs with their clawed feet are the flat tail with typical crosshatching and a face.
Las leyendas solo están disponibles en alemán o inglésThe Tsimshian may have been the first to make raven dance rattles. This example represents a widely disseminated model: On the back of a raven sits a man whose tongue is being pulled out by a frog, which is, in turn, being seized by a kingfisher. The underside of the rattle shows a hawk. "Underside" is incorrect insofar as this was the side which was on top when a chief held the rattle in his hand. (28 cm, ASM)ASM = Alaska State Museum, Juneau
Las leyendas solo están disponibles en alemán o inglés bowl for food in the shape of a frog. (23 cm: MOA)MOA = Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Las leyendas solo están disponibles en alemán o inglésArgillite totem pole from the last century. From top to bottom, there is a bear, a raven with a frog on its wing, the figure of a chief and a hawk with a killer whale in its talons. (36 cm, MOA)MOA = Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Las leyendas solo están disponibles en alemán o inglésFour replicas of totem poles in Kitwancool: At far left is a totem pole of the frog clan with the ancestral mother and her frog children. The two poles to the right belong together and represent the wolf clan. The one to the left depicts Will-a-daugh with her wood worm children (see 42); after their death she changed herself into the mountain eagle Skim-sim.
