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A totem pole removed from an Indigenous burial site more than a century ago and kept on display in a Canadian museum has been repatriated to the Nuxalk Nation.
A totem pole removed from an Indigenous burial site more than a century ago and kept on display in a Canadian museum has been repatriated to the Nuxalk Nation.
FORMA Construction and NessCampbell Crane and Rigging workers lift the 140-foot Lelooska totem pole onto a wheeled trailer to move into the Port of Kalama's new Mountain Timber Market on May 12, 2023.
A totem pole carved over half a century ago by Chilkoot artists is coming home. It has started on a cross-country trip and will arrive in the Chilkat Valley in the near future, after spending ...
The totem pole: an intercultural history. Seattle: University of Washington Press. See especially "The Swan Pole" by Robin Wright, on pp. 124 - 125. Wright notes "The first known person to commission ...
The original Kwa-Ma-Rolas totem pole – which, again, is not the one that stands there now – was donated to the city of Chicago in 1929 by Kraft Foods founder James L. Kraft.
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 ...