Spirit transformed : a journey from tree to totem
At the commencement of the Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, in the summer of 1994, a 30-foot totem pole carved by renowned First Nations artist Roy Henry Vickers was unveiled. This book tells in words and pictures the amazing story of that single cedar's journey from the forest of the Walbran Valley on Vancouver Island to Saanich Commonwealth Place, where it became the Salmon Totem. A tale of metamorphosis and renewal on several...