Totem Pole - Close up (Design)

From Saxman Totem Park, Ketchikan, Alaska

I wanted to take a closer look at the patterns/colour pallets/over all style of the totem pole just to help inspire ideas and styles for our animation! Our animation needs to portray a dream like state therefore the use of reds, purples, greens and blacks can be used to create linear like patterns maybe? The colours remind me of coloured chalk on black paper ... need to test!