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 ...

MAZOMANIE (WKOW) -- Marilyn Huset says her father Marvin could carve just about anything, including a totem pole. In the mid-80s, he carved a totem pole that went on to stand tall and proud at Lions ...

Visitors to the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria's Inner Harbour will have a chance to watch and talk with two master carvers as they carve a new totem pole. Tom and Perry LaFortune of the Tsawout First ...

FAIRBANKS - Few artworks of Native North American cultures inspire as much fascination as the totem poles carved by coastal peoples indigenous to the lands stretching from Seattle to the Alaska ...

A 14-foot totem pole carved by Chilkoot artists is headed from the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta, Ga. to Haines. (Courtesy Delta Flight Museum) A totem pole carved over half a century ago by Chilkoot ...

MONROE, Wash. — Douglas Tobin first saw shapes in the wood when he was a boy. His father had built a backyard patio out of cedar. Tobin took out his pocket knife and started whittling, earning a ...

VANCOUVER, B.C. – A world-renowned totem pole, regarded by native people whose ancestors carved it more than a century ago as an “umbilical cord” to their history, has been returned to British ...

The history of totem poles 9 -- The designs of West Coast art 19 -- Two-dimensional art 31 -- Carving in two dimensions (plus one) 37 -- Tools and wood 43 -- Beginning to carve 51 -- West Coast masks ...

A totem pole trail is in the making as the Sealaska Heritage Institute during the past weekend began raising the first 12 of 30 poles that will line the Juneau waterfront at Overstreet Park. On ...

The smell of cedar and the sounds of singing filled the garden behind the Alaska Native Heritage Center during the raising of a totem pole that symbolizes healing from the boarding school era. More ...

Kate Hart Nardone has a special love for Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center. As a child, she often had birthday parties there, hosted by her parents, who were both artists. They explored the grounds and ...

A beautiful bird with a 10-foot out-stretched wingspan, a beaver, a fox, a bear holding a green fish will be coming soon to the site of the Wayne Henderson School of Art and Music. Marion Downtown in ...