The impressive nature of monumental carvings on the Northwest Coast has long attracted the ... This was also a period when Native American cultures in general interested groups like the Boy ...

But looking at his work—an intricate raven mask painted with ovoid native designs, an oar carved from a single ... first encountered the Northwest Coast art at the Field Museum in Chicago ...

There's no better place to discover the craftsmanship behind totem poles — towering wooden structures adorned with intricate animal and human carvings ... of Alaska's Native peoples.

Together, the Canoe Carving House and Welcome House would be known as the Northwest Native Canoe Center. There was a period when Coast Salish carving as a way of life almost ceased, Bill Jr. said.

See more than 300 objects that suggest cultural and material exchanges between these two groups, and include carvings on walrus ... the relationship Native coastal communities have with marine ...

Leaders from a number of Native groups turned out for the ... At first glance, the poles resemble the art forms carved by Northwest Coast Indigenous artists for thousands of years.

Bergeron is a rare teacher of Native American wood carving techniques and styles that span the centuries. His students come from all over to learn from a master who creates cedar bentwood boxes ...

Celebrations were held in Seattle Friday as a decades-long effort to create a Northwest Native Canoe Carving and Welcome Center was officially recognized. The United Indians of All Tribes ...

SEATTLE — Crews will soon break ground on a canoe carving house as part of the Northwest Native Canoe Center. On Friday, stakeholders were able to take a closer look at the space that will ...