In one way, Saturday’s totem pole raising ceremony at Gastineau Elementary School felt like the culmination of a decades-long process. At the same time, those on hand were excited for it to mark the ...

The totem pole is an icon of the Pacific Northwest. The carved art form showcases clan stories and family crests in museums around the world. After more than 30 years in the Anchorage Museum, a ...

Haida carving brothers Joe and T.J. Young are back in Juneau to finish a pair of Eagle and Raven totem poles. About this time last year, the Hydaburg men and their apprentices were using axes and ...

Model totem poles, rattles shaped like ravens or dragonflies and intricately carved masks are among the objects in an exhibit of Northwest native art opening Sept. 8 at the McClung Museum of Natural ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Under the covered basketball court at Harborview Elementary School in downtown Juneau, a group of carvers has just started working on a Raven totem pole. It's one of two healing ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The drawing was donated to the Smithsonian Institution by Major General C. F. Humphrey through Colonel E. H. Humphrey, Army War College, on July ...

BLYN –– Three more totem poles by Dale Faulstich were added to the roster of carvings around the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal Center on Wednesday. “It’s kind of a never-ending cycle,” Faulstich said.

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 ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Nicholas Galanin can’t wait to see the totem pole from far away. Galanin, the lead carver on a 40-foot Yanyeidi Wolf totem pole that will go up in Savikko Park on Douglas Island ...

SALISBURY – As a way to commemorate his father’s life, Mark Scott recently relocated a totem pole that his father built more than 20 years ago. Scott and his wife, Cathy, moved the totem pole from the ...

In an effort to protect sacred sites and Indigenous rights, the Lummi Nation is taking a carved cedar pole on a cross-country journey to Washington, D.C. A totem pole created by Lummi Nations carvers ...