Small poles were usually produced for sale ... In 1951, the Indian Act was revised and the ban on potlatching was dropped, rendering the celebration and raising of totem poles legal once again. Totem ...

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 ...

My name is Small Number. This is a story that I’ve heard from my grandmother and that she heard from her grandmother. It is about an old totem pole built by my ancestors on a beach close to our ...

"Totem poles” refer to monumental carvings made from tree trunks by Indigenous peoples from the northern Northwest Coast, in what is now Southeast Alaska and British Columbia. These impressive ...

The totem pole was carved from red cedar in 1855 and is made almost entirely from a single piece of wood, with a small cap on top which can be separated It originally stood in Ank'idaa village on ...

It is the first totem pole to be returned from a British ... he and his team simply took it. The 11m (36ft) pole, carved mostly from a single piece of red cedar, had been commissioned to honour ...

the artist was awarded the rare honor of having a small planet named after him by two amateur astronomers from Hokkaido. Fukuro, erected as part of a trio totem poles Sunazawa titled “Shiko no ...