Interior Pole

A finely carved interior post, an indication of the owner's high social standing, once stood at the back of a house. It had a large human figure at the top holding a chief. The chief wore a dance hat and had in his hands a talking stick. He stood on the head of a raven in transformation, with a beak beneath its human-like nose. The large grizzly bear at the base was devouring a human figure and had small bird faces in its nostrils and small bears in its ears. Although this pole stood at the back of the house there was a round doorway in the stomach of the bear, like and entry-pole.