Endres, AlaskaPhotographics Rainforest NPS The rest of the totem pole cannot be seen. The hat has three teal rings painted on it and the man has dark thick eyebrows and lips. The raven figure sits atop a cylinder-shaped hat on the figure of a man. Its dark beak with red lips juts out from the vertical pole. The top figure is a raven head with large, over dramatized eyes. On the right is a second, cut-out picture of the top portion of a totem pole, painted in the traditional colors of red, light greenish-blue and black. On the left is a larger tree trunk, obscured by the branch and needles of a tree not fully seen. Photo description: Soft sunlight streams through the tall spruce and hemlock trees onto the rain forest floor, illuminating the leaves of young trees, berry bushes and devil's club that grow densely beneath the tall trees. Photo caption: Walk through the temperate rain forest covering much of the park and see one of the finest collections of totem poles (right) in the Northwest. Each is described individually under the headings that follow starting with the image on the left and then moving to the right. Below this row of images is a map of the world. Photo collage description: Along with the text, the upper half of side one of the brochure is filled with color photographs of the landscape, buildings, and artifacts. If you pay close attention to the landscape, artifacts, and artisans of Sitka National Historical Park, you will hear the story of the cultures who lived, and still live, on this island. In the 1960s, after decades of acculturation and population decline, Tlingits began to reassert their culture. The Tlingits preserved their traditions as the Americans who replaced the Russians wrought their own changes. When the Russians departed after six decades, both groups had been changed by the encounter. Here Tlingits and Russians met, fought, and then uneasily coexisted for a time. Tlingits had thrived on the island they called Shee for countless generations before ambitious traders came from the west in search of new goods. The forest shrouding the land, the rivers running through it, and the sea around it provided everything needed to sustain a vigorous human community. they remember a land of plenty and the people drawn to its wealth.
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