All images and text © Kevin Moloney


A bird takes flight over the waterfront of Angoon, Alaska, on the morning of the return of a bear clan totem found more than 80 years after its disappearance.



Garfield George, right, and other Tlingit tribe members, pause for comments after driving a bear clan totem off a ferry at Angoon. Clan members and tribe elders described their emotions at the totem's return.



Tribe member Don Johnson directs a truck carrying a bear clan totem after arrival on a ferry at Angoon. The totem was moved into a local elementary school gymnasium for a ceremony to unpack it and welcome it home after more than 80 years at the University of Northern Colorado.



A girl tosses foam packing material as members of the Tlingit nation unpack the recently-returned totem pole.



A Tlingit man scoops up a child next to the top of a recently-returned bear clan totem pole. The 600-pound bear normally crowns the nearly-two-story pole, but was removed for shipping.



Tlingit and Haida Cultural Resource Specialist Harold Jacobs, left, dresses his father Mark Jacobs in the regalia of the elder's killer whale clan. Members of all the clans represented in the village assembled to welcome the totem and to display their clan regalia.


All images and text © Kevin Moloney

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