Timber and Totem Poles, 1949

Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:10:00 Southeast Alaska, land of timber and totem poles, has much to offer Americans, toady and for hundreds of years to come. Here on the Tongass National Forest there is timber waiting to be felled and hauled to the mills—vast acreages of Sitka spruce, western hemlock and graceful cedar. Here, too, totem poles tell of the legends of the land in ancient carvings. Native Alaskan Indians, in ceremonial garb, are shown restoring and copying their totem poles. Shows that the fine art of totem carving was in danger of extinction until revived by the Civilian Conservation Corps under the auspices of the U.S. Forest Service.