The Seattle Totems were a professional ice hockey franchise in Seattle, Washington, 1958-1975. The donor of this hockey puck attended all the games in the 1960s at the Civic Ice Arena when there weren't any protective Plexi panels around the rink. Sometimes the puck would fly into the stands and the donor was fortunate enough to catch one of them. The appropriation of Indigenous names for professional sports teams has been popular since the 19th century, and the design of the Seattle Totems logo was based on the art from the tribes of Canada and Alaska. Visitors to Seattle started to incorrectly associate the northern totem poles with the city in the early twentieth century as a result of a displayed totem pole in Pioneer Square, which was stolen from a Tlingit village in Alaska by Seattle business leaders in 1899. Native artists from this region, notably Chief William Shelton (Tulalip) and Joseph Hillaire (Lummi), began carving Coast Salish style totem poles in the 1920s and 1930s to connect a demand for totem poles to the traditions of Indigenous peoples of the area.