When I thought of totem poles I think I was influenced by early western TV shows like the Lone Ranger where they showed fake American Indians dressed in war paint around a totem pole.
But totem poles like the ones represented above with the outstretched wings were carved by the Kwakiutl, Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, mostly in Canada.
This totem looks like a cross between pacific northwest totems and the tiki totems which is from ancient Polynesia.
This one is without a doubt more of a tiki totem with the wide smile usually meant to represent the first human beings on earth.
