Alison Marks marked the spot. Marks, an artist, recently became perhaps the first Tlingit woman to carve and raise a totem pole. The finished piece was raised at noon Oct. 27 in Yakutat by the house ...

BRISTOL, Va. - At some point, whittling a piece of wood becomes carving. It might be a small animal or a character, but a local artist wanted to carve something bigger -- so big, in fact, that it's 30 ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Both fine art and performance art, the carving of a totem pole by father-son duo Doug and Michael Chilton, punctuated by jokes and laughter, is drawing in visitors at the ...

The pole crafted by Fred Fulmer is bound for Alaska, in what will be a bittersweet sendoff Saturday in his backyard. EVERETT — A piece of Everett some 650 years in the making will soon make its way to ...

Tom Gilles stood by a totem pole at the edge of a lake, fall colors reflecting in the water. It took Gilles three years to carve the totem pole in the basement of his cottage on Lake Deneveu. Gilles, ...

MAZOMANIE (WKOW) -- Marilyn Huset says her father Marvin could carve just about anything, including a totem pole. In the mid-80s, he carved a totem pole that went on to stand tall and proud at Lions ...

Visitors to the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria's Inner Harbour will have a chance to watch and talk with two master carvers as they carve a new totem pole. Tom and Perry LaFortune of the Tsawout First ...