About the Carvers
Brothers Joe and T.J. Young were hired in 2009 to carve an Eagle totem for the University of Alaska Southeast (UAS). The pole will balance the Raven totem already on campus. In Southeast Native society, people are either of the Raven or Eagle moiety and both sides need to be represented for social and spiritual balance. The project is sponsored by Sealaska Heritage Institute and Sealaska Corporation, which donated the 15-ton, 45-foot, red-cedar log. The artists are Sealaska shareholders who live in Hydaburg on Prince of Wales Island. They have carved other totems, including a 40-foot pole for the Sitka National Historical Park and a 32-foot crest pole for the Hydaburg Totem Park.
