Totem Poles are carved wooden pillars made by the First Nations of the Northwest Coast. Totem poles are important symbols for BC Northwest Coast peoples. Several kinds of totem poles were carved by ...

"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 ...

artists produced many smaller poles, keeping the artistic traditions alive. In 1951, the Indian Act was revised and the ban on potlatching was dropped, rendering the celebration and raising of totem ...

Vector illustration. 19th Century North America - Haida village Vintage engraving of a Haida village with totem poles and war canoe. The Haida, historically sometimes spelled Hydah, are an indigenous ...

Vector illustration. 19th Century North America - Haida village Vintage engraving of a Haida village with totem poles and war canoe. The Haida, historically sometimes spelled Hydah, are an indigenous ...

Here are some of the more common Native American totems and meanings and the positive characteristics attributed to them: ...