Image | Totem raising. Caption: Fifty years ago, on August 22, 1969, Haida people came together to raise a traditional totem pole — the first time they had done so in living memory.

"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 ...

Williams is the first Haida tattoo artist to emerge in 120 years. ... Davidson is renowned today not just for totem poles and masks, but also for painting, sculpture and printmaking.

Old Massett totem pole raising revisited in Christopher Auchter’s documentary Now Is The Time ...

Hydaburg, a rainforest town of 400 on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska, is on a mission. It s leading a resurgence in Haida culture, churning out new totem poles, running a carving ...

Haida totem pole, carved at Kasaan, Alaska. This pole was commissioned in 1876 [sic, should be 1875] for the Philadelphia Exposition. Crests, from top: Possible wolf, unknown, Bear Mother with cub, ...

COOPERSTOWN _ A 30-foot-tall totem pole in front of Fenimore Art Museum will be unveiled at 1 p.m. Saturday, inviting visitors to see the collection of American Indian art inside.

Few residents of the Golden Hill neighborhood will remember one of its most famous residents. Wasgo, the 30-foot-tall Alaskan Haida totem pole, stood watch over the neighborhood from 1905 to 1939.