Raven struggled to bring home food ... Today, this legend is memorialized in the most prominent totem pole in Ketchikan, Alaska: the 55-foot-tall Chief Johnson pole. The current iteration of ...

34.25 x 2.25 x 2.25 in (87 x 5.7 x 5.7 cm) ...

APPRAISER: This is a totem pole model. It's carved of argillite ... APPRAISER: At the top, we have a raven with a humanoid figure clasped within its wings. Beneath that, a fierce grizzly bear ...

A few families claim Raven, who brought light to the world ... The dedication and raising of a totem pole is accompanied by a great potlatch, a public feast often involving lavish gift giving.

More than 600 people gathered on Sunday for the ceremony, raising Alaska’s first totem pole dedicated to all Alaska ... are also carved in the ears of the raven, which is “showing them how ...

Examples of what are commonly known as totem poles in Skidegate Indian ... in June 1921,” says Scher Thomae. The raven at the very top of the pole had to be recarved by a Haida carver before ...

The Kakaso'las totem pole has been on loan to Vancouver's largest ... Bak'was (the wild man of the woods), Dzunuk'wa (giant of the woods) and a raven. Kakaso'las was carved by Kwakwaka ...

The Kakaso’las totem pole was carved by Neel in 1955 ... wild man of the woods), Dzunuk’wa (giant of the woods), and a raven at the base. The pole was carved at Neel’s Ferguson Point ...

A totem pole removed from an Indigenous burial site more than a century ago and kept on display in a Canadian museum has been repatriated to the Nuxalk Nation. More than 100 Nuxalkmc traveled more ...