Totem pole fragments provide lost details

Ketchikan Museums staff has been working to catalog, document and store totem pole fragments that have been in the museum’s collection for 40 years. The fragments can provide details lost on many of the larger poles.
Fragments await cataloging. Many have fading, 40-year-old labels. (Photo by Maria Dudzak, KRBD – Ketchikan)Hayley Chambers is the museum department’s senior curator of collections. She said the Haida poles stored at the Totem Heritage Center came from Old Kasaan an