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Hoonah’s rich fishing history remembered through totem poleLead carver Gordon Greenwald said the totem, or kootéeyaa, serves as a tribute to seiners, trollers, longliners, crabbers, rod and reelers, and all fishermen and women who kept Hoonah’s fishing ...
The 36-foot tall memorial pole has spent almost a century in a Scottish museum. Now it will be returned to the Nisga’a Nation in Canada.
TOTEM POLE'S FRONT SIDE HAS CARVED HEAD MOTIFS BASED ON THE FORMLINE SYSTEM (PAGES 606-607, HANDBOOK OF N. AM. INDIANS, VOL. 7, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1990). FROM TOP: CROWNED HUMAN HEAD, BIRD'S ...
The totem pole stands in the entryway of France’s Musée du Quai Branly, tall and elegant but somewhat out of place — the contours of its weathered exterior in stark contrast with its clinical ...
The Nisga'a Nation has finally brought its family history home, almost 100 years after a totem pole was stolen and sold to Scotland's National Museum.
Two totem poles were stolen from the Quileute Tribe tribe, according to the Clallam County Sheriff's Office.
The Sealaska Heritage Institute put up storyboards to protect the poles installed this year, after summer images of their mistreatment by tourists.
After almost a century and a journey of thousands of miles, an artefact taken from Canada is now home. It is the first totem pole to be returned from a British museum to an indigenous community ...
Inside the Nisga’a Nation’s Fight to Get a 36-Foot Totem Pole Back From Scotland National Museums Scotland agreed to repatriate the object, which was stolen in 1929, following an in-person ...
Hoonah’s rich fishing history remembered through totem pole The story of fishermen carved — “all of us in the past, all of us in the future, and all of us now.” by Jasz Garrett Wednesday ...
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