Totem poles were especially popular in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s, when many Americans sought uniquely “American” art forms that could not be traced to Europe. This was also ...
The wood for the totem poles was cut from the Nakagawa Experimental ... were erected on the premises of Sapporo Art Museum in Sapporo. “Nature uses the chisels called wind and snow on the ...
A nineteenth century Malagan totem from New Ireland in the form of a carved wooden head decorated with various pigments with the eyes are made from the opercula of the turbo shell. The 'hair' is ...