The village of Ninstints (Nans Dins) is located on a small island off the west coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii). Remains of houses, together with carved mortuary and memorial poles, ...

Tlingit and Haida has endorsed the totem pole project ... They are not simply art; they are living embodiments of our ...

This painted cedar wood totem, most probably carved by the Haida people, was collected at ... Looking very similar to the many large totem poles set up in the ground, this small version features ...

Edmund “Ed” Calder 1900-1978 Growing up in Old Massett, Haida Gwaii, Edmund Calder taught himself how to carve both wood and argillite. Though this work, he became famous for his intricate model totem ...

Totem poles, however, are specific cultural practices belonging to certain tribes in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, including the Tsimshian, Haida ... Eugene's Public Art Committee, but ...

Over the last decade, several hundred Native American students and their families helped design, carve, and paint a series of totem poles ... 36-foot-tall Haida-style “Story Pole” were shelved ...

Depictions of the Bear Mother story on totem poles and other forms of Northwest Coast art have been occurring for hundreds ... and their cubs in the Spirit of Haida Gwaii, the internationally renowned ...