Raven and Blackfish, (sculpture).

Raven and Blackfish, (sculpture).

Shotridge, Israel, sculptor.

Raven and Blackfish, (sculpture).

Raven-Finned Blackfish, (sculpture).

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Carved, painted wood.

A carved, wooden totem pole with painted figures. A raven sits at the top of the pole. A diving blackfish, with a long dorsal fin, is at the bottom of the pole.

Animal -- Whale

Animal -- Bird -- Raven

Ethnic -- Indian -- Tlingit

Outdoor Sculpture -- Alaska -- Klawock

Administered by City of Klawock, City Administrator, P. O. Box 113, Klawock, Alaska 99925

Located Klawock Totem Pole Park, Klawock, Alaska

IAS files contain related excerpt from Viola E. Garfield and Linn A. Forrest's: "The Wolf and the Raven," Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1948, pg. 127, 129, which refers to the totem as the "Raven-Finned Blackfish."

Klawock Totem Pole Park contains twenty-one replicas made from the original totem poles of the Tlingit fishing village of Tuxekan. The poles were created in the 1930s through the Roosevelt Administration's CCC program.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Alaska survey, 1994.

SOS Conservation Treatment Award, 2000.

SOS Conservation Treatment Award, 2001.

Garfield, Viola E., "The Wolf and the Raven," Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1961, fig. 51.

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