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Totem poles and houses at ʼKsan, near Hazelton, British Columbia.. Totem poles serve as important illustrations of family lineage and the cultural heritage of the Indigenous peoples in the islands and coastal areas of North America's Pacific Northwest, especially British Columbia, Canada, and coastal areas of Washington and southeastern Alaska in the United States.
Poles are placed outside family houses where they display the family's crests, history, wealth, social rank, inheritance, and privilege. [22] The sequence of characters and symbols sculpted into a totem pole is indicative of past family events, ancestors, myths, and heraldic crests, with the bottom figure usually being the most prominent. [23]
Totem poles, a type of Northwest Coast art. Northwest Coast art is the term commonly applied to a style of art created primarily by artists from Tlingit, Haida, Heiltsuk, Nuxalk, Tsimshian, Kwakwaka'wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth and other First Nations and Native American tribes of the Northwest Coast of North America, from pre-European-contact times up to the present.
Yéil X̱ʼéen (Raven Screen) (detail). Attributed to Ḵaajisdu.áx̱ch, Tlingit, Kiks.ádi clan, active late 18th – early 19th century. Formline art is a feature in the Indigenous art of the Northwest Coast of North America, distinguished by the use of characteristic shapes referred to as ovoids, U forms and S forms.
The Pole of Sag̱aw̓een was carved by Oyee to commemorate Chief Sag̱aw̓een from the Eagle tribe (Gitlaxluuks clan). At 81 feet (25 m) tall, this pole is the tallest pole carved on the Nass River. It stood in the village of Gitiks alongside two other Eagle poles: first, the Eagle's Nest Pole, and later in 1885, joined by the Halibut Pole of Laay.
He produced a totem pole for the Indians of Canada Pavilion at Expo67 in Montreal, and a pole for the Totem Marina at Shuswap Lake, BC. [4] A noted work by Henry and Richard Hunt is a 32-foot (9.8 m) memorial pole which was erected in 1970 in memory of Mungo Martin at Alert Bay.
The design for the housepost is by Coast Salish (Musqueam) artist Susan A. Point and for the totem pole by Robert Davidson. There is no clear delineation of posted credits for carving this and a nearby Haida totem pole, but the list of carvers includes Robert Davidson, Leonard Wells, Ben Davidson, Leslie Wells, Reg Davidson, and [illegible ...
Thunderbird House Totem Pole, Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Tony Hunt Sr. OBC RCA (24 August 1942 – 15 December 2017) was a Canadian First Nations artist noted for his KwaGulth style paintings and totem poles , which he carved from single cedar logs.