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  2. Totem pole - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Nisga'a and Haida Crest Poles of the Royal Ontario Museum

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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.

  4. 6,000-year-old wood carving could solve Stonehenge mystery

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    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 ...

  5. Pioneer Square totem pole - Wikipedia

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    The Pioneer Square totem pole, also referred to as the Seattle totem pole and historically as the Chief-of-All-Women pole, is a Tlingit totem pole located in Pioneer Square in downtown Seattle, Washington. The original totem pole was carved in 1790 and raised in the Tlingit village on Tongass Island, Alaska to honor the Tlingit woman Chief-of ...

  6. Big Beaver Totem Pole - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Beacon Hill Park - Wikipedia

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    "The Story Pole", a totem pole erected in 1956, which was the tallest freestanding totem pole in the world The park is notable for a few human-made features. Most prominent is the world's fourth-tallest totem pole , a 38.8-metre (127 ft) work carved from a single cedar tree by Kwakwaka'wakw craftsman Chief Mungo Martin , his son David, and ...

  8. Kwanusila - Wikipedia

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    Kwanusila is a 12.2 meter (40 foot) tall totem pole carved from red cedar. It stands in Lincoln Park at Addison Street just east of Lake Shore Drive in the Lake View neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The colorfully painted totems include a grimacing sea monster at the bottom, a man riding a whale above it, and Kwanusila the Thunderbird on top.

  9. Captain Vancouver landing site on Maui - Wikipedia

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    Captain Vancouver was not the first European visitor to Maui, however, a landing site was erected in the form of a large totem pole. Kihei went mostly untouched for years. [1] Captain George Vancouver settled in the Pacific Northwest in the area of the city of his namesake, Vancouver B.C.

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