At this stage, different tools were used. 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 ...

The pole acts as a visual illustration. It narrates oral history. It displays important characters to evoke its meaning. These characters have family significance. All carvers must have an acute sense ...

"Totem poles” refer to monumental carvings made from tree trunks by Indigenous peoples from the northern Northwest Coast, in what is now Southeast Alaska and British Columbia. These impressive ...

The Totem Pole, also known as the Tote, is one of three dolerite sea stacks at Cape ... graded 25 and climbed by Simon Mentz and Steve Monks in 1995. The adventuous aspect of the Pole make climbing ...

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 ...

This story has been updated with additional information. Installing up to five wooden totem poles at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center carved by local tribal artists is being proposed by the U ...

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 ...