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"Artist hopes pole will stand as symbol of cooperation" was on the front of the April 29, 2015 Lake Cowichan Gazette.
Totem Poles are carved wooden pillars made by the First Nations of the Northwest Coast. Totem poles are important symbols for BC Northwest Coast peoples. Several kinds of totem poles were carved by ...
Now, a new documentary film, Story Pole: Indigenous Veterans and the Tallest Totem in the World, delves into its intriguing ...
Totem poles were again carved and erected in the communities along ... The large poles in this gallery represent the different artistic styles developed by the coastal peoples. Each First Nation ...
The totem pole is an icon of First Nations - the collective term for Aboriginal Canadians - culture. While some regard them as cultural symbols, others think they are works of art. For Helin ...
The totem pole stands in the ... In October, members of the Wet’suwet’en Nation travelled to Paris and gathered around the ...
James Hart and his son, Gwaliga, have worked on many projects together, but the latest, a totem pole led by the Haida ... the best way to assimilate First Nations children was to remove them ...
The Shiko no Tori totem poles were not the first works Sunazawa created with the condition that they be allowed to naturally decay outdoors. In 1986, his four huge wooden sculptures called ...