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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 16497, member: 55&quot;]No.&nbsp; There generally isn&#039;t, for Northwest Coast Native items.&nbsp; I run some websites for two specific areas, subsets of the Kwakiutl and Tsimshian, but those aren&#039;t relevant to this totem.</p><p>But I recognize the work of the family.</p><p>There is some information on this family in the recent UW Press book &quot;Carvings and Commerce: Model Totem Poles 1880-2010&quot; and you might see if your local library has a copy.</p><p>I was a contributor to the book, and to the museum exhibition on which it was based, and have discussed the Rudolph family and their distinctive style (and traded some of their totems) with Christopher Smith of Alaska, recogized as an authority on the Rudolph family.&nbsp;&nbsp; He provided several articles including an index of model totem makers, for the book mentioned.&nbsp;&nbsp; You can check his model totem blog at&nbsp; <a href="http://modeltotems.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://modeltotems.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://modeltotems.blogspot.com/</a> for some articles about the Rudolph family, and you might consider posting your question and photos there; I imagine he would be willing to look at photos of your item and could estimate date, specific carver, and value.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; I know NW Coast Native wood items about as well as Taupou knows baskets, I guess.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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