Ancestors of local Tlingit residents carved the petroglyph into a dark gray shale piece. It’s about 3 feet by 2.5 feet. It shows a face, with circular eyes and a lebret marking below the bottom lip. But, somebody last month destroyed the historic rock art that’s likely hundreds to thousands of years old.
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Voices chatter and drums beat while hundreds of people gathered in a drive through lot next to a tribal carving shed in Wrangell on a warm, clear July day. Their eyes watched about 50 people crouched down to wooden beams on the ground, beneath a two-ton red cedar totem pole. The lead carver of this new pole instructs those standing next to the beams.
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Episode 58: The first totem pole raising event since 38 years ago will happen this month, July 18-20. Many people are traveling to Wrangell for the celebration, leaving little vacancy in the island’s lodging. Over the past year, the Wrangell Cooperative Association has brought in master carvers to help teach apprentice carvers. Two of them, Tony Harding and Mike Hoyt, who is also WCA’s totem pole project manager chatted with KSTK’s Colette Czarnecki on their carving experience, the history of totems on Wrangell and what to expect during the event.
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Esther Aaltséen Reese has been with the Wrangell Cooperative Association for the past 13 years. But now that’s about to change.
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Wrangell City Hall on June 26, 2024. (Colette Czarnecki/KSTK) The Central Council of Tlingit &...
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