Storytelling Pole: Total with Thunderbird clutching Killer Whale

• Main Author: Unknown
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Sculpture; Native American: Nootka; Canadian; sculpture (visual work); totem pole; totem poles; British Columbia; Canada; Thunderbird; Killer Whale; Killer whale
• Online Access: http://digital.libraries.psu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/arthist2/id/30743

Total with Thunderbird clutching Killer Whale The story told is that a village--starving because a killer whale was eating all the salmon--called upon Thunderbird for assistance. Thunderbird scooped up the whale, flew it to Mt. Tzouhalem and ate him. Bear at the base protects human from future such...