Kwakiutl carvers are only allowed to carve their own family crests into totem poles. It limits every artist to what their family owns. Even on the Sunnylands totem pole, there are Hunt family crests.

Watching the Winter Olympics this past week, Sealaska Heritage Institute Senior Research Fellow Rick Harris saw something that surprised him. The Canadian ...

13 x 12 x 5 in. (33 x 30.5 x 12.7 cm.) A superb hand carved red cedar and painted Haida Gwaii moon mask. Inscribed verso Kwakiutl Moon and signed. Dimensions: 13 inches x 12 inches x 5 inches ...

Executive producer Marsha Bemko shares her tips for getting the most out of ANTIQUES ROADSHOW. Value can change: The value of an item is dependent upon many things, including the condition of the ...

Part of the larger group of Kwakwaka’wakw, "speakers of the Kwak'wala language," the Kwakiutl Band are the first inhabitants of Fort Rupert (Tsax̱is) on the northeastern shores of Vancouver Island ...

Watching the Winter Olympics, Sealaska Heritage Institute Senior Research Fellow Rick Harris saw something that surprised him.

View FIREMAN DANCER; KWAKIUTL SEA BEAR By Hunt Richard; screenprint on paper; unframed 16.5 x 16 in — 41.9 x 40.6 cm 15 x 21 in — 38.1 x 53.3 cm; Signed; Edition. Access more artwork lots and ...

Photo Lot 24 SPC Nwc Kwakiutl NM No # Boas 00068900, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution Genre/Form Photographs Scope and Contents Three Men Near Blanket Pile; Men in Blankets, ...

View A George James (Kwakiutl & British Columbia, 1947-) carved cedarwood loon bird bowl, circa 1990s, lidded and inlaid with abalone she (Circa 1990s) By James George; carved cedarwood; 8h x 19l x 7 ...

THIS volume consists of Kwakiutl texts with translations for which the material was obtained from a half-blood Indian of Fort Rupert, British Columbia, who speaks Kwakiutl as his native language ...

Charles Joseph, a Kwakiutl artist from Canada's West Coast and a residential school survivor, says the totem pole erected outside the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts tells an important story.

TSAXIS, KWAKIUTL TERRITORY (PORT HARDY, BC), July 31, 2015 /CNW/ - On July 29 2015, the BC Court of Appeal overturned a BC Supreme Court decision, finding the Province breached its duty to consult ...