Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hometown: I am Tlingit Indian from Southeast Alaska. I belong to the Dakl'aweidi Clan (killer whale). I was born and raised in ...

Sealaska Heritage Institute is incorporating a traditional Native carving method into the building of the Walter Soboleff Center in Juneau. Wayne Price is a Tlingit carver from Haines. He’s using an ...

A rare wooden rattle attributed to a famous Tlingit artist sold at an art auction in California last month. The 230-year-old piece came from a private collector and sold for half a million dollars.

An artist named Steve Brown traveled to Wrangell in 1984 to begin the project of a lifetime. He'd been hired to replicate the work of a Tlingit master who lived at least 200 years earlier and created ...

The three books, “How to Carve a Tlingit Tray,” “How to Carve a Tlingit Hat” and “How to Carve a Tlingit Mask,” are narrated by Alaskan carver Richard Beasley. Through a combination of step-by-step ...

Alison Marks marked the spot. Marks, an artist, recently became perhaps the first Tlingit woman to carve and raise a totem pole. The finished piece was raised at noon Oct. 27 in Yakutat by the house ...

The pole crafted by Fred Fulmer is bound for Alaska, in what will be a bittersweet sendoff Saturday in his backyard. EVERETT — A piece of Everett some 650 years in the making will soon make its way to ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - As an artist, collaborator and conservator, Tlingit master carver Tommy Joseph has been involved with many of the most important totem projects in Alaska over the past 20 ...

Clunk-clunk, clunk-clunk. A mallet pummels a chisel into wood. Then comes the dry rasp of a curved knife scraping the surface. Israel Shotridge stares at the bug-eyed socket he's just shaped into a ...

Tlingit elders came together to share their cultural knowledge with the public in the first event of the Art of Place series on Feb. 17 at the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau. “Our theme this ...

A year and a half after Yale returned the last of hundreds of Machu Picchu artifacts to Peru, the Yale Peabody Museum faces a new charge of cultural theft—this time about two carvings from a native ...