Native Tlingit art

Long grey day today -motored (with sail up as the seas were a bit rough) from 6:30AM to 2:30PM where the boat had to go through US customs in Ketchikan prior to going in to Canada tomorrow. We all got all of 1 hour in Ketchikan in the poring down rain, but I refused to don my rain pants one more time :-) Some made a bee-line for the marine for Alaska brown rubber boots. Priorities. We squandered 15 minutes waiting for a latte from an inexperienced barista (but it was GOOD!) , walked through town to the shop that sells Alaska Artist Ray Troll t-shirts (for the grandkids) and just had time to check in at the gallery where a Tlingit artist who made us a bentwood box years ago has shown his work. This is a sad story. A very talented young man, he had too many other problems to commit to making art. It took us 4 years (and an Alaska lawyer ) to finally receive the carved and painted box we commissioned and paid for. It is gorgeous! This blip is a totem he made that stands in the gallery, but this artist owes the dealer a lot of money, left town, and sadly just can’t make use of his talent. The thumbnail is a bear! holding a copper.
Motored some more to Foggy Bay through a very narrow shallow channel for another late dinner and slide show for our last night out.

Day 10 and 11, set