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VINTAGE 43 FOOT KETCHIKAN ALASKA NATIVE TLINGIT NA-A-IE-KU-TI-GA TOTEM POLE
VINTAGE 43 FOOT KETCHIKAN ALASKA NATIVE TLINGIT NA-A-IE-KU-TI-GA TOTEM POLE
VINTAGE 43 FOOT KETCHIKAN ALASKA NATIVE TLINGIT NA-A-IE-KU-TI-GA TOTEM POLE
VINTAGE 43 FOOT KETCHIKAN ALASKA NATIVE TLINGIT NA-A-IE-KU-TI-GA TOTEM POLE
VINTAGE 43 FOOT KETCHIKAN ALASKA NATIVE TLINGIT NA-A-IE-KU-TI-GA TOTEM POLE
VINTAGE 43 FOOT KETCHIKAN ALASKA NATIVE TLINGIT NA-A-IE-KU-TI-GA TOTEM POLE
VINTAGE 43 FOOT KETCHIKAN ALASKA NATIVE TLINGIT NA-A-IE-KU-TI-GA TOTEM POLE
VINTAGE 43 FOOT KETCHIKAN ALASKA NATIVE TLINGIT NA-A-IE-KU-TI-GA TOTEM POLE
VINTAGE 43 FOOT KETCHIKAN ALASKA NATIVE TLINGIT NA-A-IE-KU-TI-GA TOTEM POLE
VINTAGE 43 FOOT KETCHIKAN ALASKA NATIVE TLINGIT NA-A-IE-KU-TI-GA TOTEM POLE
VINTAGE 43 FOOT KETCHIKAN ALASKA NATIVE TLINGIT NA-A-IE-KU-TI-GA TOTEM POLE
VINTAGE 43 FOOT KETCHIKAN ALASKA NATIVE TLINGIT NA-A-IE-KU-TI-GA TOTEM POLE

VINTAGE 43 FOOT KETCHIKAN ALASKA NATIVE TLINGIT NA-A-IE-KU-TI-GA TOTEM POLE

$ 63360

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Artisan: Unknown
  • Origin: Ketchikan Alaska
  • Tribal Affiliation: Tlingit
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Condition: THIS WAS DISPLAYED OUTSIDE FOR MANY YEARS AND THE WOOD AND FIGURES DEFINITELY HAVE DETERIORATED FROM THE YEARS AND THE ALASKAN CLIMATE ELEMENTS. THIS ORIGINALLY WAS AROUND 50 FEET TALL, HOWEVER WHEN IT WAS TAKEN DOWN INSTEAD OF DIGGING IT UP IT WAS JUST CUT OFF AT GROUND LEVEL. THIS IS AN ORIGINAL AND TELLS THE STORIES PASSED DOWN FOR HUNDERDS OF YEARS FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION.
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

    Description

    VINTAGE
    TLINGIT
    NA-A-IE-KU-TI-GA
    KETCHIKAN ALASKA
    43 FOOT
    TOTEM POLE
    RAISED JUNE 27, 1970
    SOME OF THE FIGURES ARE:
    BEAR
    2 BROTHERS
    WHALE
    CHIEF
    EAGLE
    NEEDS RESTORATION
    PAINT CHIPPING AND FADING
    WOOD SPLITTING AND DRY
    PAYMENT ACCEPTED ON PICK UP ONLY
    THIS TOTEM POLE WAS CARVED SPECIALLY FOR A TLINGIT NATIVE AMERICAN TO HONOR HIS FAMILY AND THE STORIES PASSED DOWN FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION
    FOR SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS
    THIS DOES NOT FALL UNDER THE ANTIQUITIES ACT.  THE HARSH ALASKAN CLIMATE AND ELEMENTS HAVE BEEN HARD ON THIS TOTEM POLE AS IT WAS DISPLAYED OUTSIDE FOR MANY YEARS.  THE EAGLE'S BEAK AND PART OF ITS EYE ARE MISSING, AND THE WINGS ARE DETACHABLE.  THE WHALES FIN IS LOOSE.  THE WOOD HAS LONG STRESS CRACKS AND CHIPS AND IS VERY DRY AND THE PAINT IS FADED AND CHIPPED.  THIS WAS RAISED ON JUNE 27 1970 IN KETCHIKAN ALASKA, I DO NOT KNOW WHEN IT WAS CARVED AS IT PROBABLY TOOK SEVERAL YEARS TO CARVE SUCH A LARGE TOTEM POLE.   THERE IS A PAPER PRINT OUT FROM THE FORMER  TLINGIT OWNER OF THE TOTEM POLE EXPLAINING THE MEANING  IN STORY FORM OF WHAT  SOME OF THE FIGURES ON THE TOTEM POLE REPRESENT.  THERE IS A STORY EACH FOR THE BEAR, THE EAGLE, THE BROTHERS AND THE WHALE.  ALSO MENTIONED IN THE PRINTOUT VERIFYING THE STORIES ARE THE TLINGIT ELDER NAMES OF FORREST DEWITT SR.,  THE LATE ADAMS JAMES 1877-1960 AND TOM UKAS A TLINGIT OF WRANGELL.