This has enabled the community and schools to observe the creation of the Totems of Petersburg. Stripping the first of two cedar logs. The first log has been split, all the bark removed and the exterior has been smoothed out.
Totems are tools with which to tell stories and keep a society's history.
In Petersburg's case, these totems will tell the history of the the Tlingits and their settlement in the Southeast. The Eagle totem begins to take shape as the carvers begin rough cutting the figures on the face of the log.