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What's with all of the totem poles in Washington?
By Charla Bear
Credit Charla Bear / KPLU
Replica of a Tsimshian pole in front of the Burke Museum. Carved by Bill Holm, Curator Emeritus of Northwest Coast Indian Art at the museum, after the originals were destroyed in a fire.
With all the totem poles in Washington State, it might surprise you to know the cedar monument isn’t from this region.
Though some local tribes now carve them, they didn’t originally.
In fact, the first one here was pilfered from another state.
