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The Frog Totem Pole, (sculpture). Artist:  Unknown, sculptor. Title:  The Frog Totem Pole, (sculpture). Other Titles:  Frog Pole, (sculpture). Dates:  1930s. Medium:  Sculpture: carved, painted wood; Foundation: concrete. Inscription:  unsigned Description:  A carved, wooden square totem pool, with outstretched frog at the top. Pole is set in concrete base. Subject:  Animal -- Amphibian -- Frog Mythology Ethnic -- Indian -- Kicksetti Object Type:  Totem pole Outdoor Sculpture -- Alaska -- Klawock Sculpture Owner:  Administered by City of Klawock, City Administrator, P. O. Box 113, Klawock, Alaska 99925 Located Klawock Totem Pole Park, Klawock, Alaska Remarks:  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, pgs. 131 and 133. The totem recalls the legend of a young Kicksetti woman and a frog, who in the guise of a handsome young man, enticed her to his home at the bottom of a lake. 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. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Alaska survey, 1994. SOS Conservation Treatment Award, 2000. SOS Conservation Treatment Award, 2001. Illustration:  Image on file. Garfield, Viola E., "The Wolf and the Raven," Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1961, fig. 54. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAS AK000034   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture AK000034 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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