Man Wearing a Bear Hat

• Main Author: Israel Shotridge
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Sculpture; Native American: Tlingit; American; sculpture (visual work); totem pole; totem poles; Cat Island; tlingit; Alaska
• Online Access: http://digital.libraries.psu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/arthist2/id/30907

Grave marker. Copied originally by Charles Brown from pole on Cat Island. This is new copy. Man, from the Bear Clan, is wearing bear's head-topped wooden hat. Whales are barely visible on the brim. The hat was worn at a potlatch or similarly important occasion