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HONOLULU — A stolen totem pole that went from the garden decor of two golden-age Hollywood actors to the basement of a Hawaii museum has been returned to Alaska tribal members. After Barrymore ...
"It gives my heart great peace that my ancestors can go home," tribe member Eva Rowan said of the returned totem pole A tribal totem poll taken from Alaska by Drew Barrymore‘s grandfather has ...
HONOLULU — A stolen totem pole that went from the garden decor of two golden-age Hollywood actors to the basement of a Hawaii museum was returned Thursday to Alaska tribal members. Screen legend ...
KETCHIKAN, Alaska — Carpenter ants have damaged one of Ketchikan’s most recognizable totem poles. The Ketchikan Daily News reports the Seward totem pole is a famous example of a Tlingit ...
In January, local Tlingit artist Fred Fulmer began carving an 11-foot, 400-pound totem pole at his north Everett home for the Petersburg Indian Association, a tribe in Southeast Alaska.
The totem pole is being returned to descendants of its original owners in Cape Fox, Alaska, which is a sacred spot for many in the 16,000-member Tlingit nation. It was taken from an unoccupied ...
Peede, who began serving as acting NEH chair in late ... to be present for a totem pole dedication and is returning to Juneau to meet with representatives from museums, Alaska University Southeast ...
one carver I met in Haines relied on computer-assisted design drawings for a special totem pole order. Regardless of the method, the art remains an integrating part of Alaska’s history and culture.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland brushes a healing totem pole for Alaska Native boarding school survivors with a bough of cedar to bless it on Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023. (Rhonda McBride/KNBA ...