Totem Heritage Center - Ketchikan AK
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Don.Morfe
N 55° 20.556 W 131° 38.040
9U E 332966 N 6136075
Totem Heritage Center is located at 601 Deermount Street, Ketchikan AK 99901. The location of the Totem Heritage Center was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Alaska Totems on June 21, 1971.
Waymark Code: WM1A4C6
Location: Alaska, United States
Date Posted: 06/17/2024
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FROM WIKIPEDIA
"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.
The center was founded in 1976 to preserve these totems and act as a cultural center. Sixteen of the museum's thirty-three totem poles are on permanent display, although the rest of the collection is available for research purposes. The center also exhibits other Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian artifacts and art pieces, including work by world-famous Tlingit carver Nathan Jackson, and renowned Haida weaver Delores Churchill.
In November 1990, a Ravenstail Weaver's Guild was formed in Ketchikan through the Totem Heritage Center. The guild served to strengthen the almost extinct craft of Ravenstail weaving and the community of makers of both Native and non-Natives in the United States and Canada."
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