The pole crafted by Fred Fulmer is bound for Alaska, in what will be a bittersweet sendoff Saturday in his backyard. EVERETT — A piece of Everett some 650 years in the making will soon make its way to ...

Alison Marks marked the spot. Marks, an artist, recently became perhaps the first Tlingit woman to carve and raise a totem pole. The finished piece was raised at noon Oct. 27 in Yakutat by the house ...

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 ...

SWINOMISH INDIAN TRIBAL COMMUNITY — Stop No. 29 for a 24-foot totem pole carved from a 400-year-old cedar tree was the Swinomish reservation on Monday morning. The totem pole’s journey seeks to ...

Moving is never easy. That’s especially true when moving a 40-foot, 2,000-pound totem pole. According to Beth Weigel, director of the Juneau-Douglas City Museum, it took two forklifts, a large crane, ...

Two expert carvers, Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw Hereditary Chief David Knox and his cousin, Mervyn Child, travelled to Victoria to repair ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. From card: "After an extensive survey ...

The history of totem poles 9 -- The designs of West Coast art 19 -- Two-dimensional art 31 -- Carving in two dimensions (plus one) 37 -- Tools and wood 43 -- Beginning to carve 51 -- West Coast masks ...

SEATTLE (AP) — A memorial totem pole in honor of John T. Williams is being raised at Seattle Center Sunday as a symbol of justice and community. A procession of hundreds of community members carried ...

Demonstrators listen as Willard Jackson shares a story and song at a May 5 protest. (Michael Fanelli/KRBD) Several dozen people gathered in the rain last week across the street from a coned-off ...

WASHINGTON – After a journey that began on the shore of the Salish Sea in northwestern Washington months earlier, a totem pole carved by members of the Lummi Nation arrived Thursday on the National ...