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Bidding is now open for our Native American Art & Jewelry auction, Day 1 of our three-day December sale, featuring Navajo, Zuni and Hopi silver and turquoise jewelry, Navajo rugs, Pueblo pottery, baskets, kachinas and carvings. Highlights include a Toby Henderson sterling and turquoise kachina sculpture, a Victor Coochwytewa Hopi overlay cuff and an Anthony Lovato tufa cast cuff, alongside pieces by Lewis Lomay, Peter and Dinah Gasper, Emma Lewis and Lowell Talashoma Sr., and more. Auction is Tuesday, December 1st at 1 PM CST. Local pickup is December 7th, 8th and 9th from 1 to 5 PM at 5263 Edina Industrial Blvd, Edina, MN. Shipping is available on all lots.
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Lot 201

David Louis Hand-Carved Wooden Totem Pole

Estimate: $300 - $600
Starting Bid
$150

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $5
$50 $10
$250 $25
$1,000 $50
$2,000 $100
$4,000 $250
$10,000 $500
$20,000 $1,000
$50,000 $2,500
$100,000 $5,000
$500,000 $10,000

Signed on the reverse by the artist. 

 

Dimensions: 12" Wide x 13" Tall x 4 1/4" Deep 

 

Condition: The totem pole is in very good condition. Please see images for details. 

 

Artist Bio: Coast Salish carving belongs to the peoples of the Salish Sea and the lower Fraser River, and it has its own visual language, quieter than the formline of the northern coast and built on crescents, trigons and open circles. David Louis, born in 1969 to a Squamish mother and a Musqueam father, grew up inside that tradition. He lives on the Musqueam reserve, dances in the longhouse, speaks his language, and carries the Musqueam name Gush-tane-m and the Kwakwaka'wakw name Numigalas.

He learned by watching and copying his father, David Louis Sr., and older carvers, and he credits Dave Nahani, Edmund Williams, Darren Lewis, Peter Charlie and William Watts as teachers. Over more than twenty years of work in red cedar he developed a style of his own, applying it to masks, plaques, paddles and totem poles, with the eagle, thunderbird, raven and salmon among his recurring figures. This totem pole is signed by Louis on the reverse.

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