Editing Totem pole (section)

==Totem poles outside of original context==
[[Image:Totem Pole - Pioneer Square - 1907.jpg|upright|thumb|right|[[Pioneer Square totem pole|Tlingit totem pole brought from Alaska]] to [[Pioneer Square, Seattle|Pioneer Square]] in Seattle; it continues to stand as of 2023.]]
Some poles from the Pacific Northwest have been moved to other locations for display out of their original context.<ref>Feldman, p. 25.</ref>

In 1903 Alaska's district governor, [[John Green Brady]], collected fifteen Tlingit and Haida totem poles for public displays from villages in southeastern Alaska.<ref>Feldman, p. 26.</ref><ref>{{cite web| title=Carved History| work=Sitka National Park archived website content| publisher=U.S. National Park Service| url=http://www.nps.gov/sitk/Cultural%20Resources/Totems/Main.htm| archive-url=https://www.webharvest.gov/peth04/20041110094917/http://www.nps.gov/sitk/Cultural%20Resources/Totems/Main.htm| url-status=dead| archive-date=10 November 2004| access-date=3 December 2014}}</ref> At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (the world's fair held in [[St. Louis|Saint Louis, Missouri]], in 1904), fourteen of them were initially installed outside the Alaska pavilion at the fair; the other one, which had broken in transit, was repaired and installed at the fair's Esquimau Village.<ref>Feldman, p. 27.</ref> Thirteen of these poles were returned to Alaska, where they were eventually installed in the Sitka National Historical Park. The other two poles were sold; one pole from the Alaska pavilion went to the [[Milwaukee Public Museum]] and the pole from the Esquimau Village was sold and then given to industrialist [[David M. Parry]], who installed it on his estate in what became known as the [[Golden Hill Historic District (Indianapolis, Indiana)|Golden Hill]] neighborhood of [[Indianapolis]], Indiana.<ref>Feldman, pp. 25&ndash;27.</ref> Although the remains of the original pole at Golden Hill no longer exist, a replica was raised on April 13, 1996, on the front lawn of The [[Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art]] in Indianapolis.<ref>Feldman, pp. 43, 52.</ref> Approximately two years later, the replica was moved inside the museum, and in 2005, it was installed in a new atrium after completion of a museum expansion project.<ref>Feldman, p. 70.</ref>

===Indian New Deal===
The [[Indian New Deal]] of the 1930s strongly promoted native arts and crafts in the United States, and in the totem pole they discovered an art that was widely appreciated by white society.  In Alaska the Indian Division of the [[Civilian Conservation Corps]] restored old totem poles, copied those beyond repair, and carved new ones.  The Indian Arts and Crafts Board, a U.S. federal government agency, facilitated their sale to the general public. The project was lucrative, but anthropologists complained that it stripped the natives of their traditional culture and stripped away the meaning of the totem poles.<ref>Aldona Jonaitis, "Totem Poles And The Indian New Deal," ''European Contributions to American Studies'' (1990) Vol. 18, pp. 267–77.</ref><ref>Robert Fay Schrader, ''The Indian Arts & Crafts Board: An Aspect of New Deal Indian Policy'' (University of New Mexico Press, 1983.)</ref>

Another example occurred in 1938, when the [[U.S. Forest Service]] began a totem pole restoration program in Alaska.<ref>Garfield and Forrest, p. v.</ref> Poles were removed from their original places as funerary and crest poles to be copied or repaired and then placed in parks based on English and French garden designs to demystify their meaning for tourists.<ref name=Moore>{{cite speech |title=Decoding Totems in the New Deal |author=Emily Moore |event=Wooshteen Kana<u>x</u>tulaneegí Haa At Wuskóowu / Sharing Our Knowledge, A conference of Tlingit Tribes and Clans: Haa eetí ḵáa yís / For Those Who Come After Us |location=Sitka, Alaska |date=31 March 2012|url=http://ankn.uaf.edu/ClanConference2/course/view.php?id=4 |access-date=31 March 2012}}</ref>

In England at the side of [[Virginia Water Lake]], in the south of [[Windsor Great Park]], there is a {{convert|100|ft|m|adj=mid|-tall}} Canadian totem pole that was given to [[Queen Elizabeth II]] to commemorate the centenary of [[British Columbia]]. In Seattle, Washington, a Tlingit funerary [[Pioneer Square totem pole|totem pole was raised in Pioneer Square]] in 1899, after being taken from an Alaskan village.<ref name=Graves>{{cite news | author=Jen Graves | title = A Totem Pole Made of Christmas Lights: Bringing Superwrongness to Life | newspaper = The Stranger | location = Seattle, Washington | date = 10 January 2012 | url = http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/a-totem-pole-made-of-christmas-lights/Content?oid=11587201 | access-date = 12 January 2012}}</ref> In addition, the totem pole collections in Vancouver's [[Stanley Park]], Victoria's [[Thunderbird Park (Victoria, British Columbia)|Thunderbird Park]], and the [[Museum of Anthropology at UBC|Museum of Anthropology]] at the [[University of British Columbia]] were removed from their original locations around British Columbia.<ref name="library.ubc.ca">{{cite web|url=http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/aboriginal/|title=UBC Archives – Celebrating Aboriginal Heritage Month: Mungo Martin and UBC's Early Totem Pole Collection|website=www.library.ubc.ca|access-date=2020-01-27}}</ref> In Stanley Park, the original Skedans Mortuary Pole has been returned to Haida Gwaii and is now replaced by a replica. In the late 1980s, the remaining carved poles were sent to various museums for preservation, with the park board commissioning and loaning replacement carvings.<ref name="library.ubc.ca"/><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WSueEr81v0IC|title=Looking at Totem Poles|last=Stewart|first=Hilary|date=2009|publisher=D & M Publishers|isbn=978-1-926706-35-1|language=en}} Includes a history of the poles in Thunderbird Park and their restoration.</ref>