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 totem pole stands in the entryway of France ... where he teaches the Wet’suwet’en language. Behind him is a pole carved by Tsekot Ron Austin. Photo for The Tyee by Amanda Follett Hosgood.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Opinion. In late October 2023, after the Road to Healing tour's stop at the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage, ...

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 ...