A Rago auction catalog called a large carved bust made of black stone a “Haida Argillite carving,” and then explained the meaning of the word “argillite.” Antiques can be made by people, companies or ...

A Rago auction catalog called a large, carved bust made of black stone a “Haida Argillite carving,” and then explained the meaning of the word “argillite.” Antiques can be made by people, companies or ...

HOW TO make something from nothing. The artist Robert Davidson has been grappling with this question ever since he was a young wood carver growing up in what used to be known as the Queen Charlotte ...

HYDABURG -- Chain saws toppled a 550-year-old western red cedar tree on Prince of Wales Island recently. But last month, the ancient log rose again as Eagle and Raven totem poles in the village of ...

39 x 29.2 cm. (15.4 x 11.5 in.) ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. ON A BRISK JULY morning, hundreds of miles from his art studio near Vancouver, Robert ...

Haida carving brothers Joe and T.J. Young are back in Juneau to finish a pair of Eagle and Raven totem poles. About this time last year, the Hydaburg men and their apprentices were using axes and ...