Cultural style: 'Ksan (Tsimshian) A lone Watchman sits atop four rings, called "chief's rings" by the carver. "Each ring," he said, "had to be earned by the owner through some special undertaking or major commitment." Beneath the rings, Raven appears in his traditional duality - as bird and as human, with the latter crouched between the ears of Bear, who holds Frog before him. These are two separate crests carved in combination. Bear's feet rest on the head of the supernatural Mountain Hawk. "He's always shown with both a recurved beak and a mouth with many teeth. It is a crest of my family," the carver said. Also belonging to the Muldoe family is a very old crest known as Halfway Out, seen at the base of the pole. The origin of this goes back to the war expedition of the warrior Naeqt against the Kitimat people of the coast. In the early 1920s, his great-grandson gave an account of the gruesome event to Canadian anthropologist Marius Barbeau: "Naeqt started on the warpath against Kitimat. On his way down, he came upon a camp, wherein a man sat by himself. He took his knife and cut the man through the middle almost in two halves, so strong was he. The wounded man ran into the lake and stood in the water up to his ribs." The name and the crest Halfway Out were derived from this incident and brought back by the warrior.