When Chuck Deffes’ shop class carved a totem poles a few years back, his goal was unifying a class of at-risk students. The 48-year-old Mount Dora artist might have carved a niche for himself as well.

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 ...

Seattle is a city of totem poles: Carved figures glower, stand watch, warn, scold, honor and mourn on poles raised in parks, city squares, museums and shop fronts all over town. Now a new pole, ...

SALISBURY – The sun tried earnestly to save the remnants of a recent Sunday as I started walking laps at Catawba College’s Shuford Stadium. Inside the track, the unlined grass of the football field ...

CASCADE -- An ancient native American art form is thriving in Cascade and people from around the world travel to the small town to learn how to tell stories in wood. Head up Highway 55 and you will ...

The pole – called a kooteeyaa in Lingít – was funded by the National Parks Service. It was raised near Juneau’s Overstreet Park, but organizers held the dedication inside due to weather.

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 ...

Vinegar Flats is one of the most “looked down upon” neighborhoods in all of Spokane, after all, most people only see it from the Interstate 90 bridge over Hangman Creek or the extreme western edge of ...

The soaring native art form of the totem pole by North America’s first peoples may be found throughout the northwestern United States and Alaska, which will celebrate 50 years of statehood in 2009.

A 10-foot-tall carving of a wolf used to mark the grave of Alvin August Casimir in the Lummi Cemetery. Today there’s a hole in the ground. In tribal tradition, the dead come out to walk at night, says ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. From card: "After an extensive survey ...