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

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

Master Kwakiutl carver Henry Eugene Hunt was commissioned by Walter and Leonore Annenberg to create a 30-foot tall cedar wood totem pole for the grounds at Sunnylands in 1972. But Hunt's family had ...

Ed Galloway’s Totem Pole Park in Foyil, Oklahoma (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) FOYIL, Okla. — In 1937, art teacher Ed Galloway began his retirement project: a 90-foot-tall totem pole ...

A carved cedar totem pole that has stood in Victoria’s Inner Harbour since 1966 will be "retiring” in Fort Rupert, the home community of the person who carved it. The province commissioned ...

David Boxley, a Tsimshian carver from Alaska, created a totem pole for the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. Boxley, who grew up in Metlakatla, and his son finished the work ...

PORT ANGELES — After a 1,700-mile journey around the Pacific Northwest, a totem pole has reached its final destination. The “Bear-Becomes-Person” transformation totem pole arrived at the Elwha Tribal ...

Figures on the totem pole include from top to bottom, an eagle, bearded man with crossed arms, man holding the sun and Raven. The two top figures represent the transfer of Alaska from the Russia to ...