Alaskan Totem Pole

Presented to the

All-American Soap Box Derby

by the Juneau, Alaska,

Rotary Club

Original of this pole stands at Wrangell, Alaska, where since 1890 it has served as a memorial to the Kiksadi chief, Kolteen

...the monument consists of four memory devices: the personified mountain at the top; the frog, raven and beaver...all symbolic in Indian culture and of particular prominence in the history of the Kiksadi People.

-Dedicated August 16, 1947

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