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Raven and the Moon Totem Pole

Categories: Native American Carvings and Sculptures, Other Carvings

SOLD Sorry this pole is sold but we are soon receiving a similar sized Grizzly Bear Pole. Contact us for more information.

This close to 5 feet high Red Cedar Totem Pole is called Raven and the Moon and was carved by Alexander Clifton Ridley from the Tsimshian Nation. The Totem pole is 59 1/2 inches high, 16 inches wide and 13 inches deep. The pole in an interpretation of the story how Raven stole the light and placed it in the sky for everyone on earth. This story was supplied by the artist and is a summary of the legend. It appears with minor variations in many tribes of the Pacific Northwest Coast.
 "Long ago, the world was covered with darkness. Raven grew tired of stumbling around in the dark and went in search of the light. As he came near to the house of an old chief, he overheard the chief talking with his daughter. Raven learned that the chief kept all the light of the world locked away in a box. Predictably, he promptly devised a plan to steal the box. He transformed himself into a Hemlock needle and landed in the river close to where the chiefs daughter always went to gather their drinking water. After unknowingly drinking the water and swallowing the Hemlock needle the chief's daughter became pregnant and in time gave birth to a son - Raven in human form.
The chief loved his new grandson greatly. Raven soon began begging for the box as a toy. When his grandfather refused, Raven began crying and screaming and throwing tantrums and pleading for the box. After many days of this, the chief reluctantly gave him the box. Raven immediately changed back to his bird form, carried the box through the smoke hole of the house and placed the light, in the form of the sun, the moon and the stars, into the sky.

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Price: $5,900.00

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