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Totem poles ( Haida: gyáaʼaang) [1] are monumental carvings found in western Canada and the northwestern United States. They are a type of Northwest Coast art, consisting of poles, posts or pillars, carved with symbols or figures. They are usually made from large trees, mostly western red cedar, by First Nations and Indigenous peoples of the ...
Designated NHL. May 5, 1977. Designated CP. June 22, 1970. 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 ...
Henry Hunt, Jr. Shirley Ford. Tony Hunt. Richard Hunt. Stanley C. Hunt. Henry Hunt (16 October 1923 – 13 March 1985) was a First Nations woodcarver and artist from the Kwakwaka'wakw (formerly "Kwakiutl") people of coastal British Columbia. [1] He carved a number of totem poles which are on public display in Canada and internationally.
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.
Archaeological investigations, carried out just 100 metres north of Stonehenge back in the 1960s suggest that a series of giant totem-pole-like timber obelisks had been erected there some 5,500 ...
These very early argillite pieces depict traditional Haida images normally seen on totem poles, masks, rattles and spoon handles. Haida art has always held images of rank, lineage and status and it can be perceived as a type of "recording device" for a society which has a rich history but no written tradition. Commercial argillite carving seems ...
Trail of the Whispering Giants. The Trail of the Whispering Giants is a collection of sculptures by Hungarian-born [ 1] artist Peter Wolf Toth. [ 2][ 3] The sculptures range in height from 20 to 40 feet (6.1 to 12.2 m), and are between 8 and 10 feet (2.4 and 3.0 m) in diameter. [ 4] In 2009, there were 74 Whispering Giants, [ 3] with at least ...
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. [1] [2] She came from Alert Bay, British Columbia, and her work is in public collections throughout the world. Scholar Priya Helweg writes, "Until Ellen Neel emerged as a ...