Just north of Washington, D.C., in a suburban park, stands a Tlingit totem pole. Scott Maxwell, a Juneau educator, made it his mission to find out why. Maxwell grew up in Potomac, Md., where he's ...

The totem pole is the first that Marks has carved, and some researchers have suggested it may be the first totem pole ever carved by a Tlingit woman. “To our knowledge, I’m the first Tlingit ...

Totem poles carved by Charles Brown (Tlingit) in the 1940s for Totem Bight Park, Ketchikan, Alaska. Image courtesy of Emily Moore. Jan 13, 2025. BY Emily Moore. SHARE ...

A Tlingit totem pole has returned to Prince of Wales Island after a more than 5,000-mile odyssey to Hollywood, Honolulu and back home. If this story was a Hollywood thriller, Steve Langdon would ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Nicholas Galanin can't wait to see the totem pole from far away. Galanin, the lead carver on a 40-foot Yanyeidi Wolf totem pole that will go up in Savikko Park on Douglas ...

While standing in front of his tribe's totem pole, Tlingit Tribe member from Klawock, Alaska Jonathan Rowan speaks about the significance of the totem pole to his Tribe at the Honolulu Museum of ...

WASHINGTON — Tlingit leaders dedicated a storied totem pole in Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s office on Tuesday. The 10-foot tall, 900-pound totem pole, which is on loan from the Sealaska ...

A 26-foot totem pole that had resided for more than a century at Chicago’s Field Museum is standing tall again among descendants of the people who carved it, long ago, from a cedar tree (this… ...

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 ...

Totem pole information and facts were assembled with the aid and expertise of Terena Hunt, an Indigenous woman of Kwakwaka’wakw and Tlingit heritage, born in Alert Bay, BC Canada.

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 ...

When the actor died, horror flick star Price and his wife bought the totem pole, which they then stuck in their yard as decoration, too. In 1981, the Prices donated it to the Honolulu Museum of Art.