The figures on the poles are mythical beings from the First Nation's ancestral past. Totem Poles at the SFU Museum are on loan from the Royal British Columbia Museum. Photographs by Mary Forbes, 2000- ...

Totem poles were again carved and erected in the communities along ... The poles below are on loan to the SFU Museum from the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria.

While western museums favour the preservation of cultural heritage, Wet’suwet’en protocols dictate that totem poles, like people, have a life cycle that ultimately returns them to the earth.

The remaining sculpture is the last piece of Sunazawa’s work exhibited outdoors that remains almost intact since the collapse of the Fukuro totem pole, according to the museum and Sunazawa’s ...

The idea to shoot an ascent of the Totem Pole, a stone tower in Tasmania, came to adventure photographer Krystle Wright in a dream. Years later, as she dangled from a line she’d rigged across ...

Among the museum's standout attractions are its collection of totem poles in its First Peoples Hall exhibition and its life-sized recreations of Canadian settlements over the past 1,000 years.