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of wealth or influence he could afford to sacrifice several slaves in his totem dedication ceremonies.
Until recently, totem carving was fast becoming a lost art, the younger generation of the Alaska natives having followed the ways of the white man. Hundreds of totems throughout Southeast Alaska were fallng into decay in the deserted Indian villages. A unique culture and the family and tribal historical records were about to go out of existence.
In 1938 the Alaska Forest Service, under direction of B. F. Heintzleman, Regional Forester, added totem restoration to its list of numerous activities, and made this work a CCC project. Today many native enrolees are learning totem carving, taught by the few surviving experienced carvers, some of whom are nearing the century mark in age.
When the Forest Service totem restoration project is completed, most of the totems in Southeast Alaska will have been restored or exact replicas made of those beyond repair. Not only is the Alaska Forest Service reviving the almost lost art of totem carving, but more important, it is preserving for all time the history of the Alaska Indian.
A number of totem parks located in various Indian villages and towns throughout Southeast Alaska have already been established. At Hydaburg the totem park contains twenty-two splendid totems of the Haida tribe . . . the most striking one being the New Howkan Eagle. This masterpiece is the creation of John Wallace, a fullblood Haida tribesman, over eighty years of age.
On our cruise we visited Old Howkan, a deserted Indian village, not far from Hydaburg. On Howkan's rocky beach still sits the Old Howkan Eagle, carved from Alaska Cedar over a century ago. His head is adorned with a living salmon-berry bush, and with gleaming eye he eternally watches the sea upon which the last of the Howkan Haida tribesmen sailed away almost a half century ago . . . never to return. Nearby, almost hidden in the dense underbrush, are the corner posts and roof beams of the tribal community house.
Once the home of over three hundred members of the warlike Haida tribe, who paddled their war canoes as far south as California, Howkan Village today is a picture of utter desoltion ... as silent and lifeless as the empty Haida grave still faithfully guarded by a storm scarred grave totem . . . Old Howkan Eagle's only companion.
More Bicycles Than Ever
According to the figures of the United States Department of Commerce, production of bicycles in 1899 amounted to 1,182,691; in 1929 it dropped to 307,845, while in 1939 the figures jumped to 1,252,029.
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