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 ...

The pole acts as a visual illustration ... This is to control the fire and stop it from burning up the tree trunk. Then a fire is built at the base of the tree. The fire is then cultivated to burn and ...

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 ...

Today, Angoon remains a quaint village of about 420 people, with colorful old homes and totem poles clustered on the west ...

An image of Victor Steinbrueck Park in Seattle. (KOMO News) TOPICS: SEATTLE — Construction at a park on the north end of Pike Place Market finished more than two months ago but could be staying ...

Installing a set of totem poles at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center highlighting local Alaska Natives may be a worthy idea, but numerous tribal residents expressed concerns during an initial ...

Robin Young’s totem pole in West Seattle; in 2009, it was recovered along with a second stolen totem, Renton’s Henry Moses Honoring Pole, which was also put back up ...

On Friday morning, shoppers in Juneau noticed the absence of two totem poles that had been at Fred Meyer’s main entrance for approximately 40 years. Tlingit twin carvers Mick and Rick Beasley ...

All individual pitches of the original climb up the Totem Pole in Tasmania, Australia, were freed in January by Doug McConnell and Dean Rollins. News from downunder sometimes takes time to sicker ...

The Ni’isjoohl Memorial Pole was taken from the Nisga’a Nation, an indigenous community in the Canadian province of British Columbia, almost a century ago. On display in the National Museum of ...

Used with permission, copyright Mike Dangeli. Some groups painted their poles while others did not. The two most common colors on the Northwest Coast totem poles are red and black. These colors have ...