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Sitka National Historical Park (earlier known as Indian River Park and Totem Park) is a national historical park in Sitka in the U.S. state of Alaska. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It was redesignated as a national historical park from its previous status as national monument on October 18, 1972. [ 6 ]
Ed Galloway's Totem Pole Park consists of eleven objects and one building on 14 acres (57,000 m²) in Rogers County, in northeastern Oklahoma.The park is ten miles (16 km) north-east of Claremore and is located 3.5 miles (6 km) east of historic U.S. Route 66 and Foyil.
The Totem Pole is a pillar or rock spire found in Monument Valley. [3] It is a highly eroded remnant of a butte.. Deserts at the end of the Permian period, 260 million years ago, formed the De Chelly and Wingate Sandstones that make up the buttes, totems, and mesas in Monument Valley.
The associated Totem Pole Ballroom became a well-known dancing and entertainment venue for big bands touring during the 1940s. [ 1 ] The park offered canoeing and pedal boating on the Charles River , a theater, gardens, restaurants and food vendors, a penny arcade , picnic areas, a zoo and amusement rides .
The park is notable for a few human-made features. Most prominent is the world's fourth-tallest totem pole, a 38.8-metre (127 ft) work carved from a single cedar tree by Kwakwaka'wakw craftsman Chief Mungo Martin, his son David, and Henry Hunt. [4] When erected in 1956 it was the tallest totem pole in the world.
Totem poles and houses at ʼKsan, near Hazelton, British Columbia.. Totem poles serve as important illustrations of family lineage and the cultural heritage of the Indigenous peoples in the islands and coastal areas of North America's Pacific Northwest, especially British Columbia, Canada, and coastal areas of Washington and southeastern Alaska in the United States.
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The park is located on the former site of a traditional Native campground known as Mud Village and Mud Bight Village. It contains a collection of totem poles and a replica of a traditional chieftain's house. This wood-frame structure has a low oval entrance, leading into a square chamber with a central fire pit, decorated with carved "house posts".