A recent auction sold a 19th-century carved and painted wooden “raven rattle” made by Northwest Coast Indians. Its shape is very unusual. Ceremonial rattles like this one tell a story and are ...

Dennis Liu doesn’t quite feel comfortable calling himself an artist, even though collectors have commissioned his wood carvings ... Northwest. Liu isn’t an artist by profession and he has no ...

LYNDEN - When a collector offered to pay the Lynden Pioneer Museum $200,000 for two bowls and a frontlet carved by Northwest Coast Indian tribes, Troy Luginbill figured that if the man was like ...

many scholars now use the term “crest pole” rather than “totem pole” to refer to monumental carvings from the Northwest Coast. Skidegate Indian Village of the Haida tribe, ca. 1878.

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 ...

United Indians will operate the Canoe Carving House, with some details still ... the Canoe Carving House and Welcome House would be known as the Northwest Native Canoe Center.

SEATTLE — Crews will soon break ground on a canoe carving house as part of the Northwest Native Canoe ... for thousands of years," said United Indians of All Tribes Executive Mike Tulee.