Haida Polychrome Wood Speaker's Staff

composed in a classic vertical format, finely carved with a crouching man, his hands held to his knees, surmounted in turn by another man, wearing a nobility hat and holding a ceremonial copper, a seated figure, with mask-like face, and a bird, with wings held tightly to the humanized body, hooked beak, thick arching brows and tall ears; rich patina overall.

Vincent Price Collection

Acquired by present owner from the Estate

See Sotheby's New York, May 2006, lot 41, for a related example and discussion by Steve Brown of the speaker staff tradition on the Northwest Coast.