Kakaso’Las Totem Pole
The Kakaso’Las totem pole is one of a number in Stanley Park, Vancouver, Canada and was carved by Ellen Neel and her uncle Mungo Martin for Woodward’s Department Store, in 1955.
A large thunderbird with outstretched wings sits on top of a sea bear clutching an orca, followed beneath by a human man holding a frog. Below that is bak’was, or ‘wild man of the woods’ with a large yellow nose that looks like a beak. Further down the giantess Dzunukwa sitting with her hands holding her knees and her lips open. Finally, at the bottom sits the Raven.
Ellen Neel was a Kwakwakaʼwakw artist woodcarver and is the first woman known to have professionally carved totem poles. She came from Alert Bay, British Columbia, and her work is in public collections throughout the world.
This asset was commissioned by nicocn383 for his fictional city of Strathcona based on a mix of Seattle, WA and Vancouver, B.C. Essentially a rainy and green North American city on the Pacific coast.
Kakaso’Las Totem Pole
Geometry
3.8K tris, 82 tris LOD
Textures
1024 x 2048, LOD 64 x 128
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