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Totem Poles:
Ketchikan has one of the world's largest collection of totems. You will find totems in the Totem Heritage Center, downtown; in Saxman Totem Park and at Totem Bight, a State Park 10 miles north of town. Additional totems are scattered throughout the city.
Adjacent to the City Park between Deermount and Woodland Streets, The center contains some 33 original totem poles or pieces of poles collected from abandoned Tlingit or Haida Indian villages. A craft center provides a workshop for artisans and craftsmen, there are classes at the center that teach native Alaskans such arts as carving, tool making and basketry.
Alaskan and Pacific Northwest Coast Totem and Wildlife Art
Alaska Natives, Culture, History and Heritage
Indigenous Peoples-Arctic/Northern Culture
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