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Sitka National Historical ParkA historic photo of the totems in the park's collection
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Sitka National Historical Park
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Sitka National Historical Park cares for more than 154,000 museum collection items.  Tlingit ethnographic items, Russian American archeological and historical items, historical photos, archives and herbarium specimens are found in the collection. Highlights of the collection include totem poles, Chilkat weaving, Tlingit oral history recordings, 19th century Russian furniture, Russian Orthodox icons and vestments and two hundred original glass plate negatives by Sitkan photographer E.W. Merrill.
Totem hall at Sitka National Historical Park  

Did You Know?
Alaska’s Governor John Brady asked leaders from several southeast Alaska villages to donate totem poles for public exhibitions outside of Alaska, and eventually, for display at Sitka’s popular public park. More than a dozen Tlingit and Haida poles were placed along the park’s trail in 1906.
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Last Updated: July 28, 2006 at 14:17 EST