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Article: Totem gets Chicago send-off 20-foot pole bound for D.C. undergoes finishing touches here
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 5, 2004
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Nathan Jackson, a Tlingit Indian master carver of totem poles,
lightly tapped a gleaming chisel and a wood shaving drifted to the
floor.
Jackson, 65, who lives in Ketchikan, Alaska, was putting finishing
touches on a totem pole here Tuesday.
When he's finished in a couple of days, the work will be trucked
to Washington, D.C., where it will go on display in the Smithsonian
Institution's new National Museum of the American Indian. Located in
front of the U.S. Capitol on the National Mall, the museum will open
on Sept. 21.
Jackson's totem pole is 20 feet high and 3 feet in diameter and
hewn from western red cedar. At the bottom, an Indian squats under
the weight of four bears. The bears grin, ...