Wood chips and sawdust cover the floor as carver Mike Hoyt rhythmically adzes a red cedar pole. Some chips and dust lay on ...

The pole crafted by Fred Fulmer is bound for Alaska, in what will be a bittersweet sendoff Saturday in his backyard. EVERETT — A piece of Everett some 650 years in the making will soon make its way to ...

Here’s what else visitors should know about Ketchikan, the “totem pole capital of the world.” ...

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 ...

Moving is never easy. That’s especially true when moving a 40-foot, 2,000-pound totem pole. According to Beth Weigel, director of the Juneau-Douglas City Museum, it took two forklifts, a large crane, ...

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 ...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) -- A 10-foot-tall wolf carving, a totem pole marking a grave and other sacred items have been stolen from the Lummi Reservation. The Bellingham Herald reported Thursday that at ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. From card: "After an extensive survey ...

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 ...