Totems

Date
1966
Photographer: De Menil, Adelaide
Description

Various poles at Klawock. Carved figures on the poles include a human or ancestor figure as well as bears, and a frog. The original totem poles were carved many years ago at a site on nearby Tuxecan Island where a large Tlingit settlement once existed. Later, around the 1930s, copies of those totems were re-carved by unemployed master boat builders in Klawock through the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a public work relief program.

Subject (Geographic)
Klawock
Keywords
Tlingit
totem
pole
Alaska
Northwest Coast
Native
First Nation
Art
Genre
Photographs
Type of resource
Still Image
Part of
George and Joanne MacDonald Northwest Coast Image Archive
Identifier
de_Menil_Slide_Donation309
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Copyright owner(s)

© Adelaide de Menil.

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