A new totem pole is being carved in Hoonah for Juneau’s Totem Pole Trail. Apprentices and master carver Gordon Greenwald are ...

Alison Marks marked the spot. Marks, an artist, recently became perhaps the first Tlingit woman to carve and raise a totem pole. The finished piece was raised at noon Oct. 27 in Yakutat by the house ...

The pole – called a kooteeyaa in Lingít – was funded by the National Parks Service. It was raised near Juneau’s Overstreet Park, but organizers held the dedication inside due to weather.

When Chuck Deffes’ shop class carved a totem poles a few years back, his goal was unifying a class of at-risk students. The 48-year-old Mount Dora artist might have carved a niche for himself as well.

CASCADE -- An ancient native American art form is thriving in Cascade and people from around the world travel to the small town to learn how to tell stories in wood. Head up Highway 55 and you will ...

Seattle is a city of totem poles: Carved figures glower, stand watch, warn, scold, honor and mourn on poles raised in parks, city squares, museums and shop fronts all over town. Now a new pole, ...

SALISBURY – The sun tried earnestly to save the remnants of a recent Sunday as I started walking laps at Catawba College’s Shuford Stadium. Inside the track, the unlined grass of the football field ...

A carved wooden totem pole that had been sitting inside the University of B.C.’s Museum of Anthropology has finally returned ...

In 1972, Walter Annenberg read an article in Natural History magazine about an exhibit called “Out of the Silence” at the Amon Carter Museum of Art in Fort Worth, Texas. The exhibit featured ...

The soaring native art form of the totem pole by North America’s first peoples may be found throughout the northwestern United States and Alaska, which will celebrate 50 years of statehood in 2009.

A 10-foot-tall carving of a wolf used to mark the grave of Alvin August Casimir in the Lummi Cemetery. Today there’s a hole in the ground. In tribal tradition, the dead come out to walk at night, says ...

<p>A totem pole by Raymond Schmidt dominates the studio of his daughter Terri Adams at her home in Columbia Falls. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)</p> <p>Terri Adams in her studio in Columbia Falls ...