People from around the world come to meet Terry Crown -- a master carver, member of the Chocktow Tribe, and totem pole expert. Terry has been carving totem poles at Arrowhead for the last 14 years.

Newer poles, some with quite modernistic stylings, are presented alongside the replicas of older ones (being carved from wood, totem poles naturally decay, so even the best preserved today are ...

It’s obvious the Field Museum’s newest totem pole doesn’t date back as far as 1899 like the one it replaced. It’s asymmetrical, partly made of silicon and was designed by using a computer.

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 ...

The first totem pole raising event since 38 years ago will happen this month, July 18-20. Many people are traveling to ...

PORT ORCHARD — Thirty-four years after the wood totem pole at the waterfront of Port Orchard was carved by Frank Smith of the Makah Tribe in 1989, his grandson, Bill Martin Jr., continued his ...

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 ...