Coast Salish Miniature Thunderbird Totem

Mid 20th Century

5.5" H x 1.625" L x 3.75" W

Hand Carved from Wood and Painted with Old Shoppe Label

In Very Good Condition

Coast Salish miniature (model) Thunderbird totems are small-scale carved poles or house-post-style sculptures featuring the Thunderbird, a powerful supernatural being in Coast Salish and broader Northwest Coast Indigenous traditions. These are typically mid-20th-century tourist-trade or artist-made pieces rather than monumental traditional poles (which were more characteristic of northern groups, though Coast Salish peoples carved house posts and later produced model poles).