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The Inland Tlingit live along large interior lakes and the drainage of the Taku River as well as in the southern Yukon, and subsist in a manner similar to their Athabascan neighbors in the mixed spruce taiga.
Tlingit, Haida, Eyak & Tsimshian Culture. The Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and Eyak live throughout Alaska's southeastern panhandle — the Inside Passage region — sharing many cultural similarities with groups along the Pacific Northwest Coast, from Alaska through Canada all the way down to northwestern California.
Tlingit Totem Pole in Glacier Bay National Park TLINGIT ART. 16) Totem poles are arguably the most iconic type of native artwork in the Pacific Northwest. Using knives traditionally made of shell, stone, or bone, the totems are usually carved from yellow or red cedar.
The Tlingit carve crests on totem poles made of cedar trees. The totem poles carved normally tell a story, and Tlingit artists carve subjects like animals into the totem poles. These pictures are aligned in a column down the pole, in order from top to bottom.
1 sty 2000 · In each Eyak village, there were two potlatch houses, outside of which was a post topped with an Eagle or Raven. The dwelling houses were unmarked. The southern Tlingit had tall totem poles in the front of their houses.
Southeast Alaska is famed for its totems and most are Tlingit or Haida carved. On this excursion you’ll explore the first Tsimshian totem pole park in the country with a magnificent 40-foot totem and 13 poles carved by the same artist.
Totem poles are typically carved from the highly rot-resistant trunks of Thuja plicata trees (popularly known as giant cedar or western red cedar), which eventually decay in the moist, rainy climate of the coastal Pacific Northwest.
