Opinion
Column: Salish totem pole 'carved by a killer'


"They say every totem pole has stories to tell.

You cannot understand the stories unless you know a pole's history � where the tree grew, who carved it, what the stacked symbols were meant to honor, memorialize, or ridicule.

Which is precisely the problem with the totem pole that arrived last week at Seattle's Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.

It was carved by a killer."

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