Totem Bight State Historical Park

Totem Bight State Historical Park in southeastern Alaska, north of Ketchikan, occupies the former site of a traditional Native campground known as Mud Village or Mud Bight Village. Developed through a Civilian Conservation Corps project overseen by the United States Forest Service, it employed skilled older Alaska Native carvers to repair or recreate poles left behind as Native residents moved to working communities. The project placed 15 totem poles, mostly replicas of 19th-century originals, and built a traditional-style community house with carved posts and a stylized raven facade by Tlingit artist Charles Brown of Saxman. Since Alaska statehood in 1959, it has served as both a scenic park and a preserved interpretation of Native carving traditions and village architecture.

Ketchikan, Alaska · United States