Detail of Metlakatla Post

• Other Authors: A. de Menil
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1966
• Subjects: Tsimshian > - Alaska > Monument > Northwest Coast > Native > First Nation > Art >; Tsimshian > - Metlakatla > Alaska > Monument > Northwest Coast > Native > First Nation > Art >; Metlakatla; Tsimshian; Tsimshian*; Alaska
• Online Access: https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/billreid-3680/detail-metlakatla-post

Detail of one of two totem poles from Metlakatla that were brought to the Sitka Museum in 1888 when a group of young men from Father Duncan's Christian community came to the Sitka Industrial Training School. They were about to burn the poles when Sheldon Jackson arrived to bring the young men t...