Lummi totem pole

Published 1:30 am Monday, September 12, 2022

Freddie Lane, with the Lummi Indian Tribe, talks about a totem pole, carved by Uncle Doug James of the House of Tears carvers during a blessing on Sunday at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Port Townsend. The pole will leave Wednesday for a cross-country trip to Pittsburgh. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Freddie Lane, with the Lummi Indian Tribe, talks about a totem pole, carved by Uncle Doug James of the House of Tears carvers during a blessing on Sunday at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Port Townsend. The pole will leave Wednesday for a cross-country trip to Pittsburgh. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Freddie Lane, with the Lummi Indian Tribe, talks about a totem pole, carved by Uncle Doug James of the House of Tears carvers during a blessing on Sunday at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Port Townsend. The pole will leave Wednesday for a cross-country trip to Pittsburgh. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
Freddie Lane, with the Lummi Indian Tribe, talks about a totem pole, carved by Uncle Doug James of the House of Tears carvers during a blessing on Sunday at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Port Townsend. The pole will leave Wednesday for a cross-country trip to Pittsburgh. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Freddie Lane, with the Lummi Indian Tribe, talks about a totem pole, carved by Uncle Doug James of the House of Tears carvers during a blessing on Sunday at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Port Townsend.

The pole will leave Wednesday for a cross-country trip to Pittsburgh.