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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.
In 1992, Tait raised a totem in Bushy Park in London, England. Tait raised a totem pole to commemorate the opening of the Nisga'a Lisims Government building in New Aiyansh, BC, "Goothl Lisims", which translates as "the heart of the Nass". He has also carved poles standing in Osaka, Japan, and Germany, as well as many private collections.
Freda Diesing (2 June 1925 – 4 December 2002) was a Haida woman of the Sadsugohilanes Clan, [1] one of very few female carvers of Northwest Coast totem poles and a member of the Council of the Haida Nation of British Columbia, Canada. Her Haida name is Skil Kew Wat, meaning "magical little woman." [2]
Henry Hunt followed the Kwakwaka'wakw carving tradition, using minimum paint, deep cuts with traditional tools. [citation needed] A number of Hunt's works can be seen at locations around Canada. Many of his totem poles and other ornamental objects can be seen on display at the Thunderbird Park in Victoria. [3]
Foreground, the top of Kakaso'Las Totem Pole. Carved by Kwakwaka'wakw artist Ellen Neel and her uncle Mungo Martin, for Woodward's Department Store, in 1955. Currently at Stanley Park, Vancouver. Ellen Neel (1916–1966) was a Kwakwakaʼwakw artist woodcarver and is the first woman known to have professionally carved totem poles.
Boxley is very proud to have a pole in the museum, and was especially glad that the Tsimshian tribe and his village of Metlakatla were broadcast to a national and global audience due to the pole being raised. [1] He is the second contemporary Totem Pole carver in the world to have a pole in the Museum, after Nathan Jackson. [1]
Lands-in-the-sky totem pole, Suquamish. Carved by Joe Hillaire for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. Joseph Raymond Hillaire or Kwul-kwul’tw (1894–1967) was an American Indian sculptor of the Lummi (Lhaq’temish) tribe, known for his carved totem poles in the style of the Coast Salish peoples.
Tim Paul (born 1950) is a member of the Hesquiaht tribe from the Nuu-Chah-Nulth first nation. He is a master carver from Esperanza Inlet British Columbia. [1] He was the senior carver at the Royal British Columbia Museum until 1992 [2] when he left to oversee an indigenous education program for the Port Alberni school board on Vancouver Island.