Thanks for asking, jasper420! - I've studied the Indigenous peoples since elementary school, and took a minor in social sciences in college and filled it up with this type of work. Patty Inglish MS (author) from USA and Asgardia, the First Space Nation on May 22, 2011: Great! Living in the Northwest, I come across a lot of totems this hub has helped me put them in context. Goso from Seattle, Washington on June 14, 2011: Maybe you will take some photos and write a Hub about your finds! Thanks, Goso. Patty Inglish MS (author) from USA and Asgardia, the First Space Nation on June 15, 2011: Oral histories about carved masks, poles, and figures. Religious Studies 3672: Native American Religions. Art Education 2367.01: Visual Culture: Investigating Diversity and Social Justice. Totem Poles of the Pacific Northwest Coast. How the World’s Oldest Wooden Sculpture Is Reshaping Prehistory. Madagascar, Mauritius and Other East-African Islands pg 88-89. Papers from the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers 2009. August 11 - 14, 2011 at the Omak Stampede Arena near the Canadian border. Oral Histories of Carved Poles and Masks.

Wolf and the Raven: Totem Poles of Southeastern Alaska. James A., A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean 1776-1780, London, 1784. Cleveland, Richard Jeffry, Voyages, Maritime Adventures and Commercial Enterprises, London, 1842.Primitive Art, Instituttet for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning, Oslo, 1927. The Social Organization and Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians, U.S. National Museum Proceedings, Washington, D.C., 1888. Boas, Franz, The Houses of the Kwakiutl, U.S.The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History. Arctic Studies Center: National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institute.First, the poles are not 'totem' poles and second, carved and sculptured poles have been used around the Pacific Rim and even in Russia and Africa for many generations before they appeared with the first inhabitants that came to North America. While popular modern mythology holds that 'totem' poles are limited to the Pacific Northwest, this idea is incorrect.

Pacific northwest totem pole