generation no 7

I attempted to buy this tourist pole, made by Ellen Neel and the Totem Carvers, on eBay today. I was sadly outbid. I’ll keep trying though.

Here’s an original design I came up with today.

According to this Website, the Edward S. Curtis film, In the Land of the Head Hunters has been restored, re-evaluated and framed with a live orchestral arrangement. Shot in 1914, this silent melodramatic film featured many people from the Kwakwaka’wakw Nation.
It looks like the Gwawina Dance group will be performing at the Vancouver screening of [...]

Update: I’ve updated this image now:

Whale Crest Logo, originally uploaded by travisneel.

Variation on an Ellen Neel Whale, originally uploaded by travisneel.

I made this tonight. I’m liking Illustrator.
I’m thinking of allowing this image to be used as a logo for a local Vancouver organization.

This newspaper clipping from The Vancouver Sun (1953) references a series that the NFB was working on including one episode called “Totem-Pole Carvers” I’m curious to know if this episode ever got made and broadcast. I can’t seem to find any reference to it on the NFB’s website. Nor can I find anything searching Google. [...]

I just had to post this photo. I’m pretty sure it was one of the few photo’s I saw of my grandmother as I was growing up. It looks as though it was taken on a BC Ferries Ferry.

I managed to get a copy of this audio recording (thanks, Lou-ann). I believe it may have been recorded sometime in the late 1940’s. It had to have been recorded after 1948 as Ellen mentions the totem pole at that was raised in front of Brock Hall at UBC.
It appears that Roundabout was a CBC [...]

Sixty Years ago this month, my maternal grandmother, Ellen Neel, gave an address at a conference on Native Indian Affairs at the University of British Columbia. Ellen was considered one of the most well known (if not the only) woman Totem carver’s to gain recognition in that field. I will post some more info about [...]