Master carvers lead apprentices to replicate Wrangell totems

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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