Proud Raven, Panting Wolf: Carving Alaska's New Deal Totem Parks

by Emily L Moore and Emily L. Moore

Book Overview

Among Southeast Alaska's best-known tourist attractions are its totem parks, showcases for monumental wood sculptures by Tlingit and Haida artists. Although the art form is centuries old, the parks date back only to the waning years of the Great Depression, when the US government reversed its policy of suppressing Native practices and began to pay Tlingit and Haida communities to restore older totem poles and move them from ancestral villages into...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029574393X
• ISBN13: 9780295743936
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 10.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher