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  • Saxman Totem Park, the Blackfish Fin - Saxman AK
    In the 1961 volume, The Wolf and the Raven, anthropologist Viola Garfield and architect Linn Forrest describe the visual characteristics of the totem pole: "The Klawak Blackfish Fin carving symbolizes a mythical monster of the sea about which the south eastern Alaska Indians tell many tales. It has the head and body of a bear and the fins of the blackfish or killer whale. In the carving the dorsal fin is represented as a slender shaft, rounded at the top. The pole stood in front of a house in the Tongass village on Cat Island. The story and carving belong to...
  • Saxman Totem Park, the Blackfish Pole - Saxman AK
    In the 1961 volume, The Wolf and the Raven, anthropologist Viola Garfield and architect Linn Forrest describe the visual characteristics of the totem pole: "Two adventures of the ancestors of people of Blackfish House of the Wolf phratry are illustrated on this carving. The main section symbolizes the blackfish, or killer whale, from which the group takes its name. The long shaft above the body is the dorsal fin. Originally this was undecorated, but when the copy was made the owners granted permission to add the wolf face and the circle. These symbolize a wooden hat owned by the group, on...
  • Saxman Totem Park, Tired Wolf House Posts - Saxman AK
    The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) relocated the Tired Wolf House Posts totems from a village in Southeast Alaska to the newly established Saxman Totem Park. The CCC set up a totem restoration project in 1938 under the supervision of architect Linn A. Forrest. Tlingit carvers enrolled in the CCC carried out the restoration and carving work. In the 1961 volume, The Wolf and the Raven, anthropologist Viola Garfield and architect Linn Forrest describe the visual characteristics of the Tired Wolf House Posts: "The Tired-Wolf house posts were carved on Village Island and installed in a house on Kanagunut Island belonging to the people of Forest Island House....
  • Saxman Totem Park, Sun and Raven Totem Pole - Saxman AK
    In the 1961 volume, The Wolf and the Raven, anthropologist Viola Garfield and architect Linn Forrest describe the visual characteristics of the totem pole: “Three adventures of Raven, the Culture Hero, were drawn upon for the carvings of the Sun and Raven short mortuary totem. At the top is raven without spread wings. Around his head is the sun halo. On his breast are three, figures, the children of the Sun whom Raven visited during the Deluge. The raven tracks painted on the face of the girl in the center are traditional for women of the Raven phratry. Raven's wings are decorated...
  • Saxman Totem Park - Saxman AK
    In 1938, the Civilian Conservation Corps developed the Saxman Totem Park. The program was part of a larger U.S. Forest Service effort to employ Alaska Natives and conserve totems and Native cultural assets. Many of the poles that the CCC recovered from abandoned villages were found in an advanced state deterioration, which made conservation difficult. While restoration was the preferred approach, the CCC often opted for recarving, or partial recarving, if the pole could not be salvaged. The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The master carver at Saxman was Charlie Brown. The park was designed along...
  • Groveton High School - Groveton TX
    Native limestone rock building built in 1941 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
  • Eden Park Shelter - Cincinnati OH
    The historic shelter building in Cincinnati's Eden Park is located behind PlayHouse in the Park with a playground, pool, and basketball court attached. It has some beautiful mural artwork as well.
  • Sugar Loaf Creek Bridge - Hartford AR
    The bridge carrying Gap Road over Sugar Loaf Creek, northwest of Hartford, Arkansas, was constructed by the Work Projects Administration (W.P.A.) in 1941.
  • Slaytonville Road Bridge - Hackett AR
    The bridge carrying Slaytonville Road over a branch of James Fork, south of Hackett, Arkansas, was constructed by the Work Projects Administration (W.P.A.) in 1941.
  • Rye Hill Road Bridge - Greenwood AR
    The bridge carrying Rye Hill Road over Prairie Creek, between Greenwood and Fort Smith, Arkansas, was constructed by the Work Projects Administration (W.P.A.) in 1941.
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