Totem Bight State Historical Park

Learn about the Haida, Tsimshian and Tlingit Alaskan Native cultures as you view their totem poles and clan house from the historical and unique perspective of the waterfront. Totem Bight Park is home to Alaska's tallest totem pole. Once a Native village, the site began reconstruction in 1938 by using Civilian Conservation Corps funds to hire Native carvers, using traditional tools, to recreate the 15 totem poles and clan house found in the park today.

Your narrator will teach you the ways of the indigenous cultures. Learn about the native arts of carving, weaving, tattooing, beading and painting. Discover the secrets of Native hunting and fishing and what tools and implements were devised and utilized in daily life, ceremonies and war. You will have excellent opportunities to photograph many totem poles and the clan house, as your excursion vessel stops to allow you the most advantageous viewing points. Keep your cameras ready as we view two more American Bald Eagle nests in the trees along the nearby shorline.