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Robert McCloskey. John Robert McCloskey (September 15, 1914 [2] – June 30, 2003) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. He both wrote and illustrated eight picture books, [1] and won two Caldecott Medals from the American Library Association for the year's best-illustrated picture book. [1] [3] Four of the eight books ...
Designated NHL. May 5, 1977. Designated CP. June 22, 1970. The Pioneer Square totem pole, also referred to as the Seattle totem pole and historically as the Chief-of-All-Women pole, is a Tlingit totem pole located in Pioneer Square in downtown Seattle, Washington . The original totem pole was carved in 1790 and raised in the Tlingit village on ...
Totem poles ( Haida: gyáaʼaang) [1] are monumental carvings found in western Canada and the northwestern United States. They are a type of Northwest Coast art, consisting of poles, posts or pillars, carved with symbols or figures. They are usually made from large trees, mostly western red cedar, by First Nations and Indigenous peoples of the ...
Ellen May (née Newman) Neel ( Potlatch name Kakaso'las) was born on November 14, 1916, in Alert Bay, British Columbia. [4] Her parents were both mixed race and she was a member of the Kwakwaka'wakw tribe. Neel learned Northwest carving from her maternal grandfather, Yakuglas/Charlie James, a noted totem carver and from her uncle, the famed ...
The Bob & Tom Show is a syndicated US radio program established by Bob Kevoian and Tom Griswold at radio station WFBQ in Indianapolis, Indiana, March 7, 1983, and syndicated nationally since January 6, 1995. Originally syndicated by Premiere Networks, the show moved to Cumulus Media Networks (now Westwood One) at the beginning of 2014.
Boxley is very proud to have a pole in the museum, and was especially glad that the Tsimshian tribe and his village of Metlakatla were broadcast to a national and global audience due to the pole being raised. [1] He is the second contemporary Totem Pole carver in the world to have a pole in the Museum, after Nathan Jackson. [1]
Gʼpsgolox pole on the yard of the Ethnographic department of The Swedish Royal Museum in the city of Stockholm, 1929. The Gʼpsgolox totem pole was a nine-metre-high mortuary pole that was made in 1872 by the Haisla people on the shore of Douglas Channel in British Columbia, Canada. In 1929 it was brought to Sweden and the Museum of Ethnography.
Mercedes and Jonathan Sandhu, the Texas couple who welcomed identical quadruplets on May 1, have an exciting announcement: All four babies are home! Hannah Grace, Lucy Marie, Rebecca Claire and ...