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AHRS No. KET-001. Added to NRHP. June 21, 1971. The Totem Heritage Center is a historical and cultural museum founded in 1976 and located in Ketchikan, Alaska. The center is operated by the city of Ketchikan. The location of the Totem Heritage Center was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Alaska Totems on June 21, 1971. [1][2]
Added to NRHP. June 11, 2002. The Chief Son-I-Hat's Whale House and Totems Historic District, also known as the New Kasaan Totem Pole Park, is a historic district encompassing the relocated remnants of Old Kasaan, a historic village of the Haida people in Prince of Wales–Hyder Census Area, Alaska. Now located in new Kasaan, the property ...
Saxman Totem Park is a public park in the city of Saxman, Alaska, just south of Ketchikan in southeastern Alaska. The park is home to a collection of totem poles, some of which are old poles relocated to this place from unoccupied Tlingit villages in the region, or were reconstructed by skilled Tlingit carvers under the auspices of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.
The CCC project built the community house and placed 15 totem poles, most of them replicas of 19th-century poles. [2] At statehood in 1959, title to the land passed from the federal government to the State of Alaska. The historic site, comprising 8.5 acres (3.4 ha) of the park, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 27 ...
Jackson at work in his studio in August 2012. Nathan Jackson (born August 29, 1938) [1] is an Alaska Native artist. He is among the most important living Tlingit artists [2] and the most important Alaskan artists. [3] He is best known for his totem poles, but works in a variety of media. Jackson belongs to the Sockeye clan on the Raven side of ...
Sitka National Historical Park (earlier known as Indian River Park and Totem Park) is a national historical park in Sitka in the U.S. state of Alaska. [4][5] It was redesignated as a national historical park from its previous status as national monument on October 18, 1972. [6] The park in its various forms has sought to commemorate the Tlingit ...
Shamanism among Alaska Natives was particularly important as it served to construct their special connection to their land, and a kinship with the animals with whom they share that land. Before the introduction of western culture and the religions that are now practiced in Alaska , there was a common spiritual connection made with the people to ...
AHRS No. PET-010. Added to NRHP. October 27, 1970. The Chief Shakes Historic Site is a historic collection of original and recreated Native Alaskan artifacts. It is located on Shakes Island, inside Wrangell Harbor, Wrangell City and Borough, Alaska. The most prominent feature of the site is a 1940 reconstruction of a Tlingit community house.