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Totem Pole Pioneer Square

Original Vintage Card
  
 Price: $3.95

Stock #:25645
Type: Postcard
Era: White Border
City: Seattle
State: Washington (WA)
County: King
Publisher: C.P. Johnston Co.
Size: 3.75" x 5.5" (10 x 14 cm)
Additional Details:
This unique pole was carved from a single cedar tree by a tribe of Indians inhabiting Tongass Island. Southeastern Alaska. It is sixty feet high and eight feet in circumference and was intended as a monument to a distinguished family. The pole stood for nearly a century on Tongass Island. It was discovered by a party of Seattle business men in August 1899 and removed by them to Seattle and presented to the City

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