The wood was harvested from a Washington forest ... In 1941, his great-grandfather, Frank St. Sinclair Sr., carved a 47-foot totem pole for the Auke Village Recreation Area in Juneau.

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 ...

"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 ...

Installing up to five wooden totem poles at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center carved by local tribal artists is being proposed by the U.S. Forest Service, in connection with a co-stewardship ...

During the rough carving process the wood is kept damp so it doesn't dry out and crack ... The two most common colors on the Northwest Coast totem poles are red and black. These colors have different ...

The wood for the totem poles was cut from the Nakagawa Experimental ... Kaze sculptures in 1986 at his Otoineppu atelier, where he carved other famous works, including “Kami no Shita” (Tongue ...