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 ...

artists produced many smaller poles, keeping the artistic traditions alive. In 1951, the Indian Act was revised and the ban on potlatching was dropped, rendering the celebration and raising of totem ...

All individual pitches of the original climb up the Totem Pole in Tasmania, Australia, were freed in January by Doug McConnell and Dean Rollins. News from downunder sometimes takes time to sicker ...

The totem pole is being carefully prepared for a 4,200-mile journey. On the ground floor of the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, one of its biggest displays is being carefully prepared ...

Robin Young’s totem pole in West Seattle; in 2009, it was recovered along with a second stolen totem, Renton’s Henry Moses Honoring Pole, which was also put back up ...

The idea to shoot an ascent of the Totem Pole, a stone tower in Tasmania, came to adventure photographer Krystle Wright in a dream. Years later, as she dangled from a line she’d rigged across ...

Animal totems are embedded in the history of civilizations worldwide—from the shamanic traditions of Native Americans to the totem poles of indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest ... lion when ...

OTOINEPPU, Hokkaido--“Fukuro” (Owl), a 6-meter-high totem pole created by the renowned late contemporary Ainu sculptor Bikky Sunazawa, was toppled by winds here in late April and left to ...

It is the first totem pole to be returned from a British museum to an indigenous community - a potentially precedent-setting moment in the broader move towards museum repatriation. Museum curator ...

This unique connection is perhaps best represented by the sea turtle totem, which symbolizes the ability to carry one’s burdens on one’s back and remain at a steady pace in the face of adversity.

Mamarika’s clan reveres the green turtle as a totem, or spirit animal. Sid Bruce Short Joe and Christine Holroyd, with the Pormpuraaw Art and Culture Centre, use lost or discarded fishing nets ...

A new illuminated public art installation in Qualicum Beach was inspired by a totem pole that once stood at the waterfront. It was installed last week as the centrepiece for the town’s new ...