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 ...

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 ...

In 1951, the Indian Act was revised and the ban on potlatching was dropped, rendering the celebration and raising of totem poles legal once again. Totem poles were again carved and erected in the ...

Only an area up to a height of 1.7 meters or so from the totem pole’s base escaped damage ... had already taken a beating prior to the strong winds. “Ezoshika” (Indigenous Hokkaido shika ...

The Clallam County Sheriff’s Office says its detectives found and returned two totem poles that were stolen from the Quileute ...

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 ...

Until last week, a totem pole in Hong Kong would have been a rare ... but had no opportunity to work as an artist, so became a commercial fisherman. Then fate stepped in. Helin was accidentally ...