Featured Can someone validate these for me?

Are they real? Were they really made by Native Americans? Can they be dated? My gparents got them on one of their trips to Alaska from the 50s to the early 70s I believe. They are 2-1/4 inches high and weigh around 7 grams each. The one with missing wings has a different base. None are marked. Thank you for looking.

 

Yup...classic Alaskan souvenir totems , made from bone or ivory.
You dating is good , but these were made earlier , and later...
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They were also made in and for Canada....and could be found up and down the Pacific Northwest.

 

they were and are also made of wood , metal, and plastic...

 

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Yep. Alaska souvenirs, likely bone or ivory, but possibly plastic; and 1950-1970 would be reasonable - hard to say, because similar have been sold for many years. Could be native-made, but I think non-native would be more likely. I suspect some were imported from China or Taiwan even that early.

 

I remember when I was a tyke in elementary school. a classroom had a little wooden totem pole sitting in a window, but if you looked in at it from the schoolyard, it had "Made in Japan" stamped on the back.

 

Thank you for your help and assurances on these totem poles. I’m almost positive they are carved from bone, they have pits all over and no Schreger lines. You guys are truly appreciated.

 

we had the bone, ivory...& Chinese carvers here already..... I've not come across what would be imports..??

 

In bone, I'd think quite unlikely to be imports at that time. But I think I've seen plastic "totem" trinkets more recently. But one could certainly make a nice collection of older bone totems from Alaska and Canada - and OP Cory has a start on such a collection already!

 

^& he seemed like a nice guy....at least here...

 

But not HERE.

Looks like Cory is banned now.

 

I can't remember the last time someone dissed Kronos..??
Me , on the other hand .....