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 ...

"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 ...

It is the first totem pole to ... and C$600 for the pole - estimated to be about C$7,000 and C$10,000 today - and Mr Barbeau obliged. In the summer of 1929, when most Nisga'a people were away ...