Sitka Tribal Enterprise June 2007 tourist season. The Sheetka Kwaan Naakahidi Dance group performers are being introduced by the Dance Show Coordinator-Angie Ketah. The dancers are from left to right: Leonty Williams, Shante Rice, Unknown, Unknown,...
Title taken from front. Group photo of Tsimshian band members with instruments and Reverend William Duncan on wharf, Metlakatla, Alaska. Postcard. Original photograph size: 3 1/4" x 5 1/2".
Hewson, Wayne (artist). Video, 57 seconds MPG format. Wayne Hewson is a Tsimshian carver from Metlakatla, Alaska. Hewson's carving career began in 1967 in a boarding school in Wrangell, when he used a pocketknife and a bar of soap to carve a...
Title and identification courtesy of Harold Jacobs. During the 1920's, many of the original totem poles in Kake were burned. After many years of not having totem poles, the residents of Kake, Alaska organized to acquire and place a 132-foot...
Ryan, Abel (artist). Video, 1:05 minutes MPG format. Born in Ketchikan, Abel Ryan now lives in Metlakatla. This Tsimshian carver learned basic flat design techniques from a master carver while in high school, and has now been carving for 14...
Group photograph outside a log building with the following people identified: Mayor Ryan of Annette Island, Charlie Purvis, Oscar Craig, Kay Hitchcock (Copper Center, AK Native Brotherhood), Theodore Hetzel, Howard Rock.
Ryan, Bert (artist). Sculpture of cottonwood, abalone, acrylic paint, human hair, and leather strap. Size: 20 x 25.5 x 7 in. The cottonwood was given to Ryan by Sonya Kelliher-Combs (Anchorage artist) from a tree in her yard. Artist information:...
Ryan, Bert (artist). Sculpture of alder wood, copper, acrylic paint. Mask is in one piece with flange that has cutout shapes. Black and red paint and copper shapes used as decoration.(copper eyebrows and mustache held on with copper rivets)....