For the first time in 38 years, Tlingit and Haida came together in Wrangell from throughout Southeast Alaska and celebrated the unveiling of five new totem poles.

The totem pole has a quirky history, associated with lingering claims of a curse on the city’s sewer system placed by artist Adam ‘Fortunate Eagle’ Nordwall.

KALAMA — A carved wooden eagle stands proudly atop the 140-foot tall totem pole, its painted wings outstretched into the clear blue sky. Believed to be the world’s tallest totem ...

The totem pole has been on loan to the institution since 2017. Charles Joseph (born in 1959), Residential School Totem Pole, 2014–16, red cedar, acrylic paint. 1,524 x 762 (including wings), 152 ...

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The totem pole that honors his sister-in-law will stand as a proud reminder, he says, not just to her, but to what she represented: James, through her dancing and songs, was a kindred spirit in ...

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 ...

Rotting wood on the iconic McKinleyville shopping center’s totem pole, which was purported to be the largest in the world, caused the owners to shave off 29 feet from the pole’s summit.

From a distance, "Totem," the Mark Vance sculpture on extended display at the Kenneth Paul Lesko Gallery at the West 78th Street Studios on the edge of Cleveland's Gordon Square Arts District ...

A totem pole removed from an Indigenous burial site more than a century ago and kept on display in a Canadian museum has been repatriated to the Nuxalk Nation.