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The sisiutl is a legendary creature found in many cultures of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, notably the Kwakwakaʼwakw. [1] Typically, it is depicted as a double-headed sea serpent. Sometimes, the symbol features an additional central face of a supernatural being.
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.
Totem poles, a type of Northwest Coast art. Northwest Coast art is the term commonly applied to a style of art created primarily by artists from Tlingit, Haida, Heiltsuk, Nuxalk, Tsimshian, Kwakwaka'wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth and other First Nations and Native American tribes of the Northwest Coast of North America, from pre-European-contact times up to the present.
The totem poles carved normally tell a story, and Tlingit artists carve subjects like animals into the totem poles. These pictures are aligned in a column down the pole, in order from top to bottom. The poles are put on outside corners of "traditional dwellings", used to structurally support their interiors, or placed on shores.
It is frequently depicted in the art, songs, and oral histories of many Pacific Northwest Coast cultures, [citation needed] but is also found in various forms among some peoples of the American Southwest, [citation needed] US East Coast, [citation needed] Great Lakes, [1] and Great Plains.
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 ...
Natsilane does so, and over the years the seeds grow into a bewildering array of tree species, all of which are now native in the Pacific Northwest. Natsilane uses wood from the trees to carve tools and a boat. Haida grave totem with Blackfish motif, 19th c. In appreciation of Sea otter, Natsilane then tries to carve a new totem.
Hamatsa: The Enigma of Cannibalism on the Pacific Northwest Coast by Jim McDowell; Chiefly Feasts: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch by Aldona Jonaitis; Aldona Jonaitis (1998). From the Land of the Totem Poles. University of Washington Press. ISBN 0-295-97022-7. The Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia by Ronald Rohner and Evelyn Bettauer