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Totem Heritage Center Kanayama Cultural Exchange Program
Photo Essay courtesy Ketchikan Museums


March 24, 2004
Wednesday - 1:00 am


Ketchikan, Alaska - Since 1998, a favorite annual event at the Totem Heritage Center is a visit by the students from Ketchikan's sister city, Kanayama, Japan. This year Linda Schrack, Haida, and her family provided the cultural interpretation for this program.

 

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Linda Schrack (right) assisting Kanayama students with a Northwest Coast Native
regalia project, an eagle design headband.

 

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Participants created their own button designs.

 

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Wilfred Agoney (button robe) demonstrates how to do the Eagle Dance.

 

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Kanayama students 'soar like eagles' to the beat of a Haida drum!

 

 

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