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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.
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.
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.
Detail of "Gyaana", totem pole designed by Davidson and carved by him and others, Lions Lookout Park, White Rock, British Columbia, Canada. Davidson is known internationally as a carver of totem poles and masks, printmaker, painter and jeweller.
Big Beaver Totem Pole [1] (also known as Story of Big Beaver, [2] or simply Big Beaver) [3] [4] is a 55-foot (16.8-meter) tall outdoor totem pole sculpture by Norman Tait, of the Nisga'a people of British Columbia, located in front of the north entrance to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Soul Pole is a totem pole installed outside Seattle's Douglass–Truth Branch Library, ...
Archaeological investigations, carried out just 100 metres north of Stonehenge back in the 1960s suggest that a series of giant totem-pole-like timber obelisks had been erected there some 5,500 ...
Description: The cedar pole was carved by Joe Hillaire, a Lummi carver, for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair "Indian Village". Stamped on negative jacket: Bainbridge Island Series Handwritten on negative jacket: Suquamish [illeg.]. "Lands in the sky" totem pole. View source image. More information on the commercial rights for this photo..