It is the first totem pole to be returned from a British museum to an indigenous community - a ... It was the late 1920s, and the Canadian ethnographer had paid many visits to the Ank'idaa village ...
"Totem poles” refer to monumental carvings made from tree trunks by Indigenous peoples from the northern Northwest Coast, in what is now Southeast Alaska and British Columbia. These impressive ...
Created around 1970, these poles were one of SFU’s first art commissions, and the first pieces of art on campus to be commissioned from an Aboriginal artist. Unfortunately ... Contrary to the beliefs ...
A 36ft (11m), one-tonne totem pole will be returned to the Nisga'a Nation, one of the indigenous groups in ... since it was sold to the museum by Canadian anthropologist Marius Barbeau.
Several Eastern Canadian First Nations groups shared the tradition of the wampum ... inside and outside – it was decided to give two of the historic Ray Wesley totem poles a place of honor and ...