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 ...

A little bit of history: In the early 1900s, the Native communities left Totem Bight to look for job opportunities somewhere else. This, in turn, threatened to erase their legacy as decay took ...

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.

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

HERE. Two new exhibits at whaling museum. Learn about the history of scrimshaw and Native cultural heritage through two new exhibitions opening at the New Bedford Whaling Museum June 14.

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 ...

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.

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 ...