Installing up to five wooden totem poles at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center carved by local tribal artists is being ...

"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 ...

While carving large poles, masks and other activities associated with potlatching declined during this difficult time, artists produced many smaller poles, keeping the artistic traditions alive. In ...

The wood for the totem poles was cut from the Nakagawa Experimental ... Kaze sculptures in 1986 at his Otoineppu atelier, where he carved other famous works, including “Kami no Shita” (Tongue ...

The totem pole was commissioned by Amy Parent's great ... It will be housed permanently in the Nisga'a Nation, where a place for it had been carved in the ground to symbolise a return to its ...

Last year it was agreed that the pole should be returned. The totem pole was carved from red cedar in 1855 and is made almost entirely from a single piece of wood, with a small cap on top which ...

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 ...

Remains of houses, together with carved mortuary and memorial poles, illustrate the Haida people's art and way of life. The site commemorates the living culture of the Haida people and their ...