In January, local Tlingit artist Fred Fulmer began carving an 11-foot, 400-pound totem pole at his north Everett home for the Petersburg Indian Association, a tribe in Southeast Alaska.
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...