Two members of the Tlingit Nation celebrate the return of the Bear Clan Totem with a traditional dance, October 20, 2003
Daniel Johnson, right, and Walter Johns Jr. of the Tlingit Nation of Angoon, Alaska, celebrates with a traditional dance for the return of the Bear Clan Totem, once known as "Totem Teddy" on the University of Northern Colorado campus, and a Bear Clan headdress returned by the Logan Museum...
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Summary: | Daniel Johnson, right, and Walter Johns Jr. of the Tlingit Nation of Angoon, Alaska, celebrates with a traditional dance for the return of the Bear Clan Totem, once known as "Totem Teddy" on the University of Northern Colorado campus, and a Bear Clan headdress returned by the Logan Museum of Anthropology at Beloit College, Monday, Oct. 20, 2003. The Bear Clan Totem disappeared from Angoon in 1908 and reappeared in 1914 as a gift to UNC from U.S. Commissioner of Education for Alaska Andrew Thompson, an 1897 UNC alumnus. https://digscholarship.unco.edu/totem_teddy/1033/thumbnail.jpg |
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