Maureen at the foot of 1 of 30 of the oldest poles, some dating back to before 1900 in Saxman Native Totem Park, 2-1/2 miles south of town. It was well worth the taxi ride with a very colourful native taxi driver. In the late 1930's the Civilian Conservation Corps and the U.S. Forest Service retrieved and restored totem poles from abandoned village sites. This resulted in Saxman being one of several Native communities in Southeast Alaska with a totem park. The totem poles in the Saxman Native Totem Park came from ancestral villages at Cape Fox and Tongass Island, Cat Island, and Pennock Island. This is the largest totem park in the world.

Not very much is known about this pole. It is a confusing mixture of styles. It is believed to be a memorial pole to a member of the Eagle, Wolf and Bear Clans. However, the carver makes us uncertain. The figure at the top has the wing style and coloring of the Eagle but the straight beak of the Raven. It is also unsure what he meant to tell with the human figure; it contains some element of the Frog Woman, a Tlingit mythological figure, but it may have been meant to represent the person whose pole this is. The bottom figures appear to be eating one another and again, we do not know if the artist meant to convey a story or not. The two-tone face in the center probably relates that the person for whom this pole was carved died unpleasantly or violently; this is the usual meaning of a two-tone face but the colors usually used in this case are red and black.