Installing up to five wooden totem poles at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center carved by local tribal artists is being ...

The term “totem poles” refer to monumental carvings made from tree trunks by Indigenous peoples from the northern Northwest Coast, in what is now Southeast Alaska and British Columbia.

The town boasts the world's largest collection of standing totem poles, each narrating tales of indigenous tribes and their rich heritage. As Travel Alaska aptly puts it, "Ketchikan is a place ...