“The totem pole,” Aldona Jonaitis and Aaron Glass write at the start of their new book, “is not all things to all people.” That may be an understatement. In “The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History,” ...

“Carvings & Commerce: Model Totem Poles 1880-2010” by Michael D. Hall and Pat Glascock (Mendel Art Gallery/University of Washington Press, $60). This handsome book, based on a summer 2010 exhibit at ...

Mention Norumbega Park to a Newtonite of a certain age and you’ll likely evoke a flood of fond memories - dancing at the Totem Pole Ballroom, canoeing on the moonlit Charles, the fun of exciting rides ...

A 26-foot totem pole that had resided for more than a century at Chicago’s Field Museum is standing tall again among descendants of the people who carved it, long ago, from a cedar tree (this sentence ...

A 74-year-old totem pole that once stood at the Auke Recreation Area in Juneau is being restored for a second time. The Yax té pole had to be taken down in 2010 after it was damaged by woodpeckers and ...