The Lummi nation’s “House of Tears” carvers set out Tuesday from Bellingham, Wash., to drive a totem pole to the Smithsonian museum in Washington, D.C. Along the “Red Road to DC,” the totem pole and ...

Nicholas Galanin and Gordon Greenwald will lead the carving of two additional totem poles for Juneau’s Kootéeyaa Deiyí, or Totem Pole Trail. Galanin, based in Sitka, and Greenwald, a Hoonah resident, ...

EVERETT — A piece of Everett some 650 years in the making will soon make its way to Alaska. In January, local Tlingit artist Fred Fulmer began carving an 11-foot, 400-pound totem pole at his north ...

(CNN) — For the House of Tears Carvers, totem poles are more than masterful works of art — they’re a medium for storytelling, for raising consciousness, for healing. The group of artisans from the ...

This salmon is carved from cedar. But it still travels. The totem pole, the work of Native carvers, is part of the Spirit of the Waters journey to the Snake River in Idaho, making stops in communities ...

Nathan Jackson and his son Stephen Jackson, who uses the artist name Jackson Polys, stand in the carving shed in Saxman earlier this month. (Photo by Eric Stone/KRBD) The Sealaska Heritage Institute ...

Carl Muggli is determined to finish the totem pole that killed his wife before he leaves the Northland. Carl and Linda Muggli, married 24 years, carved totem poles most of that time and had become ...

For master carver Richard Hunt, the 30-foot totem in Thunderbird Park on the grounds of the Royal B.C. Museum has animals and ...

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 ...