T.J. Sgwaayaans Young was carving and teaching while working on the Kadashan totem pole under a WCA project last week. Young, a Haida master carver from Hydaburg, will be in Wrangell for four months to lead a team of five apprentices in carving the pole, one of two Shakes Island totems the project will replicate. The work is underway at the WCA carving shed downtown.
T.J. Sgwaayaans Young, a Haida master carver from Hydaburg, arrived in Wrangell earlier this month to lead a team of Wrangell-based apprentices to carve a new Kadashan totem pole. When the work is finished, the Wrangell Cooperative Association plans to hold a pole raising ceremony on Shakes Island sometime next year, Wrangell's first totem raising in 38 years.
The Kadashan pole - referring to the Tlingit chief of the same name - is the first of two the WCA team will carve this year. Next month, Israel Kinstaádaál Shotridge, a Tlingit master carver from Ketchikan, will take the lead on the seco...
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