Seattle is a city of totem poles: Carved figures glower, stand watch, warn, scold, honor and mourn on poles raised in parks, city squares, museums and shop fronts all over town. Now a new pole, ...
Those entering the Cedar Creek Corrections Center in South Thurston County will now be greeted by a totem pole carved, painted and awakened by indigenous inmates and their supporters and ...
In 1972, Walter Annenberg read an article in Natural History magazine about an exhibit called “Out of the Silence” at the Amon Carter Museum of Art in Fort Worth, Texas. The exhibit featured ...
Nathan Jackson and his son Stephen Jackson, who uses the artist name Jackson Polys, stand in the carving shed in Saxman earlier this month. (Photo by Eric Stone/KRBD) The Sealaska Heritage Institute ...
BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) - A 10-foot-tall wolf carving, a totem pole marking a grave and other sacred items have been stolen from the Lummi Reservation. The Bellingham Herald reported Thursday that at ...
FAIRBANKS - Few artworks of Native North American cultures inspire as much fascination as the totem poles carved by coastal peoples indigenous to the lands stretching from Seattle to the Alaska ...
CASCADE -- An ancient native American art form is thriving in Cascade and people from around the world travel to the small town to learn how to tell stories in wood. Head up Highway 55 and you will ...
BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) -- A 10-foot-tall wolf carving, a totem pole marking a grave and other sacred items have been stolen from the Lummi Reservation. The Bellingham Herald reported Thursday that at ...
For thousands of years, totem poles have been an important part of Haida history. It’s how Haida people maintain and honour their traditions. For Haida master carver Christian White, it’s both a ...
A 10-foot-tall carving of a wolf used to mark the grave of Alvin August Casimir in the Lummi Cemetery. Today there’s a hole in the ground. In tribal tradition, the dead come out to walk at night, says ...