Located Totem Bight State Historical Park North Tongass Highway Ketchikan Alaska
Administered by State of Alaska Division of Parks 3601 C Street, Suite 1258, P. O. Box 107001 Anchorage Alaska 99510
Date:
Late 1930s. Installed 1947
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Alaska survey, 1992.
Summary:
Totem pole features a human figure wearing a dogskin headdress. The figure's feet morph into the next figure's ears. The headdressed figure holds a club in one hand and a land otter's tail in the other. The club is symbolic of his magical powers. The lower figure is a drowned man holding onto two logs and being taken to the home of the land otters.
