(sculpture) a totem pole

a totem

triumphant, proud / skilled

strong point / triumph / regular customer

carve / engrave / chisel

a staff or stick / a power pole / an electric or magnetic pole / a surveying pole, a ranging rod, traditionally round with alternating white and black bands

Pall / Paul / Paule / Poel / Pohl / Pol / Pole / Port (from French)

to sculpt; to carve

to carve / (figuratively) to ink (a tattoo)

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend