Posted June 16th, 2000
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World-renowned Native American artist to carve totem pole at Sylvania
- Towering carved cedar totem poles stand sentry to one's arrival on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. These magnificent cultural artifacts, part of the heritage of the Pacific Northwest Coast Native Americans, are filled with the images and myths from their world. Bear, thunderbird, killer whale, all have a their place in the tribal art. The Sylvania Campus of Portland Community College will soon have one of these artworks with its commission by Richard Hunt, a fourth generation Kwa-Gulth (Kwakiutl) artist, who will carve a 30-foot totem pole. Posted June 16, 2000