Totem Poles are carved wooden pillars made by the First Nations of the Northwest Coast. Totem poles are important symbols for BC Northwest Coast peoples. Several kinds of totem poles were carved by ...

In Native American culture, totem animals or spirit animals are spiritual symbols that protect and guide ... in the Pacific ...

Karen Johnson, curator with the Olympia Tumwater Foundation, walked The Olympian through the history of the totem poles and ...

Through these powerful symbols, we can connect with the deeper rhythms of nature ... worldwide—from the shamanic traditions of Native Americans to the totem poles of indigenous peoples of the Pacific ...

Such encounters thereby earned the family or lineage the right to represent that being or event as a crest or symbol. Thus, totem poles are emblems of a family’s identity, their rights to access and ...

It is the first totem pole to be returned from a British museum to an indigenous community - a potentially precedent-setting moment in the broader move towards museum repatriation. Museum curator ...

The totem pole is being carefully prepared for a 4,200-mile journey. On the ground floor of the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, one of its biggest displays is being carefully prepared ...

On display at LeMoyne are two over-12-foot giant totem poles with detachable wings and beaks, brilliantly painted on ...

The artwork pays tribute to the totem pole carved by Simon Charlie in 1966 ... The artwork will stand as a lasting symbol of the town’s Indigenous heritage and its shared connection to the ...

The nearly 23-foot pole was carved in Lynnwood out of an Alaska red cedar from the Tongas National Forest. The trio of totem poles at Ivar's Salmon House on Lake Union has been joined by a fourth ...

A group of Witsuwit’en hereditary chiefs, elders, artists, and youth will visit Paris this month to view a historic totem ...

I don't mind. I never minded it. Listen, somebody wants my d**k is low on the totem pole. I'm not impressing anybody or doing anything. If you want to look at it, go for it - be my guest.