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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 243892, member: 55&quot;]Not eagle or thunderbird, but a Wolf.&nbsp; Kwakiutl.</p><p>Note long snout and square teeth, with sharp incisors.&nbsp;&nbsp; Eagle or Thunderbird would have a beak, with a downturned tip; Raven, a straight beak holding a small object representing the sun; Killer Whale, a blowhole; Beaver, a chewing stick; Frog, a tongue - those would be some of the symbolic elements one would look for to ID the creatures in Northwest Coast Native carvings.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t make out the writing either, and don&#039;t recognize the carver.</p><p>Alert Bay would be a likely place of origin, and it looks like possibly by a member of the Wamiss family, but that is a guess.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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