KETCHIKAN, Alaska – An arched sign stretching between two city blocks welcomes travelers to “ Alaska’s first city ” and the “ salmon capital of the world .” But Ketchikan, the first port on many ...

"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 poles ...

According to Tlingit mythology, long ago a Raven wished to marry Fog Woman, the daughter of Chief Fog-Over-the-Salmon. The chief granted his permission, and Fog Woman and Raven lived happily for two ...

In 1972, Walter Annenberg read an article in Natural History magazine about an exhibit called “Out of the Silence” at the Amon Carter Museum of Art in Fort Worth, Texas. The exhibit featured ...

One side pulls while the other side is told to hold tension in the line. Men grunt and struggle as they push against the large pole while men and women pull on the lines, all working together to ...

Excursions : toward an intercultural biography of the totem pole -- pt. 1. Totem poles in the colonial imagination -- On commerce and cultures : explorers and merchants encounter carved columns -- The ...