Sealaska Heritage Institute sees Juneau as the Northwest Coast art capital of the world. They hope the Totem Pole Trail will help visitors see it the same way.
Nathan Jackson and his son Stephen Jackson, who uses the artist name Jackson Polys, stand in the carving shed in Saxman earlier this month.
A graphic from Sealaska Heritage Institute shows where poles might be placed as part of the Totem Pole Trail in Juneau. .. Those funds support the artists and cover the costs of the logs.KRBD spoke with seven of the artists working on the trail, from Sitka, Ketchikan, Prince of Wales Island and Metlakatla.Tommy Joseph was just finishing up carving a canoe when Worl reached out, asking if he’d be interested in carving a pole for the trail.
Meanwhile, Nicholas Galanin is at work on a pole representing the Kaagwaantaan clan. He has more than 20 years experience in customary arts and carving. It won’t be the first time the family’s work makes it to Juneau. Polys created one of the bronze house posts standing in front of the Sealaska Heritage Institute’s building. Jackson has poles standing outside Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé. His work has been featured in exhibits and magazines in Alaska and nationwide.ook, one of Jackson and Polys’s apprentices, works on a pole that will be raised for Sealaska Heritage Institute’s Totem Pole Trail.
, who led explorations into the Yukon area. Polys said the man did not pay a debt he owed, so the clan took his name and military uniform. Jackson’s pole symbolizes the Wooshkeetaan clan. The first figure on the pole is an eagle, and the second, a mountain. He said he wasn’t quite sure at first why the mountain was to be on the pole until he learned the clan would put a pole in the ground over a cache of frozen meat.
Boxley gets excited when he thinks about traditional carvings being the first look of Juneau that tourists get. Veteran and Klawock elder Aaron Isaacs looks at David Rowan’s Veterans’ Pole at the Klawock carving shed. “It seems like I’ve always been involved in it,” he said. “My dad used to do it back in the 60s. And that’s where I probably got hooked.”was born and raised in Hydaburg. He’s working on two poles for the Juneau project. One will feature a Haida Raven crest, and the other a Lingít Raven crest.
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