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April 9, 2014

Hoonah carvers work on traditional house that is bound for Glacier Bay

  • Construction of the house is currently out to bid, slated to begin this spring and end in fall 2015.
    • By MARY CATHARINE MARTIN
    Capital City Weekly

    AP Photo/Capital City Weekly, Mary Catharine Martin [enlarge]
    Lead carver Gordon Greenwald, right, works on the exterior of Xúna Shuká Hit, the Glacier Bay Tribal House. Next to him is Jeff Skaflestad, a visiting Hoonah resident. The house will represent the ancestry and history of Hoonah’s founding clans.

    HOONAH, Alaska — In a former auto shop beside Hoonah High School, three carvers are busy restoring signs of Huna Tlingit ancestry, genealogy and history to the land cleared by an advancing glacier more than 250 years ago.


     
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