Small poles were usually produced for sale. Many of these poles were carved between 1910 and 1950, during a time when the potlatch, a ceremonial celebration incorporating traditions of sharing and ...

Totem poles, those giant red cedar poles elaborately carved with images of animals and people, can be thought of as three-dimensional family histories; histories that began in the time before ...

The village of Ninstints (Nans Dins) is located on a small island off the west coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii). Remains of houses, together with carved mortuary and memorial poles, ...