Some groups painted their poles while others did not. The two most common colors on the Northwest Coast totem poles are red and black. These colors have different significance and meaning among First ...

In "The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History," authors Aldona Jonaitis and Aaron Glass write about how the totem pole was discovered, praised, denigrated, anthropologized, romanticized and finally ...

Totem poles were created by the indigenous people of North America’s Pacific Northwest as a way to document their history, with each massive carving recalling notable events and commemorating… ...

Alison Bremner / Courtesy Steinbrueck / Native Gallery Sgwaayaans, a Kaigani Haida artist, carved his first totem pole at age 19. Last year, he made his first traditional canoe, from a red cedar ...

Peter Segall / Juneau Empire The Wooshkeetaan Kootéeyaa totem pole was re-installed at its new home in the attrium of the State Office Building on Friday, March 11, 2022.

Galanin, who has already helped complete one of the totem poles on Kootéeyaa Deiyí, has been training for this work since he was young. “We always say a totem pole takes 15,000 years to make ...

This week, in the Potomac Atrium of the Smithsonian's Museum of the American Indian, the renowned 59-year-old Tsimshian totem carver and his son, David R. Boxley, 30, are re-creating the magical ...