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 ...

Totem poles have become some of the most iconic symbols of “Native American culture,” but ... figures carved on monumental poles on the Northwest Coast depict animals or other beings that ...

This book documents the carving of a single Nisga'a pole. Chief carver Norman Tait notes in the introduction, "Few people have ever had the opportunity to watch the completion of a mask or any piece ...

Native American cultures in the Pacific Northwest carved totem poles that represented the various totems protecting that ...