Totem poles, those giant red cedar poles elaborately carved with images of animals and people, can be thought of as three-dimensional family histories; histories that began in the time before ...

Over the last decade, several hundred Native American students and their families helped design, carve, and paint a series of ...

Nicholas Galanin and Gordon Greenwald will lead the carving of two additional totem poles for Juneau’s Kootéeyaa Deiyí, or Totem Pole Trail. Galanin, based in Sitka, and Greenwald, a Hoonah ...

Barbeau, Marius. 1929. Totem Poles of the Gitksan, Upper Skeena River, British Columbia. Department of Mines (Government of Canada) and the National Museum of Canada. The information in this book is ...

For decades, visitors to Victoria's Beacon Hill Park have marvelled at the towering totem pole, one of the tallest in the ...

The totem pole stands in the entryway of France’s ... For the better part of a century, it stood overlooking the Bulkley ...

The idea to shoot an ascent of the Totem Pole, a stone tower in Tasmania, came to adventure photographer Krystle Wright in a dream. Years later, as she dangled from a line she’d rigged across ...

OTOINEPPU, Hokkaido--“Fukuro” (Owl), a 6-meter-high totem pole created by the renowned late contemporary Ainu sculptor Bikky Sunazawa, was toppled by winds here in late April and left to ...

Until last week, a totem pole in Hong Kong would have been a rare sight. But now, our city is home to at least two of these traditional structures. After two months of skilful carving, totem ...

Eugene School District 4J is removing five totem poles around the district this summer. Native community members have been trying to get their voices heard by the district, school board since 2021.

But the pole projects and installations drew much community attention and support. The town of Blue River even commissioned a totem pole for their new library. But some local Native Americans ...