In 1917 it came to Seattle. In 1916 my mom got my dad to carve it and it became the Seattle Pole. The top figure is the kingfisher or the Kayan, fastest bird on the water. Next to is the seal hunter holding the baby seal, leaping frog that means stop and listen the she bear the mother raven, the guardian the protector and the mother whale. The bottom figure is the hawkman which is the holy man that created this totem to protect Alaska back in the 1900’s