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Animal -- Bear
Portrait male -- Kats
Dress -- Accessory
Mythology
Ethnic -- Indian
Totem pole
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Outdoor Sculpture -- Alaska -- Klawock
Sculpture
Figure Wearing Hat, (sculpture).
Artist:
Unknown, sculptor.
Title:
Figure Wearing Hat, (sculpture).
Other Titles:
Kats the Bear Hunter, (sculpture).
Dates:
1930s.
Medium:
Sculpture: carved, painted wood; Foundation: concrete.
Inscription:
unsigned
Description:
A solid, carved wooden pole set in concrete. Two dog or wolf heads are carved on the lower, center of the totem pole. Above the two heads is the top half of a bear facing downward with both arms extended in front of him. Above him is another bear who is sitting with both knees raised; his feet resting on the back of the lower bear. His arms are bent at the elbow and against his sides. His paws are against his chest. A human figure (Kats) sits on the bear's head with both knees raised, his hands holding onto his knees. Kats wears a spruce-root hat.
Subject:
Animal -- Bear
Portrait male -- Kats
Dress -- Accessory -- Hat
Mythology
Ethnic -- Indian -- Tongass
Object Type:
Totem pole
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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:
The totem is a copy of an earlier Tongass carving. 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. 141.
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.
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 AK000031
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Inventory of American Sculpture
AK000031
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