All carvers must have an acute sense of oral history because they are ones who transfer the story onto the pole. After hearing the story, the carver begins to conceptualize the design while looking ...

The idea to shoot an ascent of the Totem Pole, a stone tower in Tasmania, came to adventure photographer Krystle Wright in a dream. Years later, as she dangled from a line she’d rigged across ...

Ivar’s recently installed Alaska-born David Boxley to replace a deteriorating Northwest Coast-style totem pole in the Salmon ...

The camaraderie led Sunazawa to create the Shiko no Tori totem poles in front of the office. The wood for the totem poles was cut from the Nakagawa Experimental Forest, managed by the university ...

It is the first totem pole to be returned from a British museum to an indigenous community - a potentially precedent-setting moment in the broader move towards museum repatriation. Museum curator ...

Each stage of the design is worked on in succession ... The two most common colors on the Northwest Coast totem poles are red and black. These colors have different significance and meaning among ...