Tlingit bear grave totem, Ketchikan, Alaska, 1901

• Main Author: Sarvant, Henry Mason
• Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Tlingit Indians > Arts & crafts; Wood carvings > Alaska > Ketchikan; Tombs & sepulchral monuments > Alaska > Ketchikan; Ketchikan (Alaska); Indian; Snag; Ketchikan; tlingit; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/loc/id/1436; http://content.lib.washington.edu/cgi-bin/htmlview.exe?CISOROOT=/loc&CISOPTR=1436

Painted Tlingit grave totem, Nov 14, 1901. Sitting bear, with small snag of fabric in its teeth. On mount: Nov. 14, 1901. Wooden bear, Indian graveyard, Ketchikan, by the grave of a woman that was killed by a bear; it has a piece of her dress and some of her hair in its mouth.