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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 8922, member: 45&quot;]Just an observation...the internet is not a reliable reference when it comes to Native American items.&nbsp; It&#039;s quick, relatively easy, but there is no fact check button, and you are more likely to end up with misinformation than with accurate identifications. A couple of exceptions would be MOA, the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia&#039;s online collection, and the Burke Museum&#039;s Online Database.&nbsp; The Burke Museum, part of the University of Washington, has one of the largest collections of Northwest Coast ethnographic material in the U.S. </p><p><br /></p><p>And sometimes you can read sections of reference books on line.&nbsp;&nbsp; An example, if you search for &quot;<i>Baboudina,&quot; </i>you can read the page (page 72) from <u>Looking at Totem Poles</u>, which will confirm that the figure at the top of this pole is actually depicting the mythological figure that resulted in mosquitoes being brought to this world.&nbsp; He isn&#039;t a bird.&nbsp; Maybe not exactly a mosquito, either, but sometimes figures on totem poles don&#039;t look like recognizable creatures that we are used to encountering.&nbsp; Here&#039;s a Tinyurl link to that page:</p><p><a href="http://tinyurl.com/kh5b2g3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://tinyurl.com/kh5b2g3" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/kh5b2g3</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Bill Holm&#039;s <u>Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form</u> is the classic source on the topic.&nbsp; I&#039;d also recommend <u>The Totem Pole, an Intercultural History</u> by Aldona Jonaitis and Aaron Glass.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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