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Watching Tlingit totem carving masters at Saxman Native Village
Ketchikan · United States
About this experience
Saxman Native Village near Ketchikan holds the largest collection of totem poles in Alaska. Local Tlingit carvers work here, and you can watch them practise a woodcarving tradition that goes back centuries.
Seeing the craft in progress changes how you look at the finished poles. This is a cultural stop rather than a scenic one, and it rewards time spent listening.
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Ketchikan is a port town on Revillagigedo Island in southeast Alaska, USA. It is known for its Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian totem poles, and Misty Fjords National Monument lies nearby.
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