Totem Pole Stolen By John Barrymore Finally Returned To Alaska

 Barrymore, star of “Grand Hotel” and grandfather of singer Drew Barrymore, displayed a stick in a garden of his California estate.

After Barrymore’s death, actor Vincent Price, famous for fear flicks such as “House of Wax,” and his mother bought a object and also used it as a yard decoration. The integrate donated it to a Honolulu Museum of Art in 1981.

Langdon’s seductiveness in a square came from a revisit to an Alaska museum where he saw a print of Price station subsequent to a approximately 40-foot-tall pole. “It was totally out of place,” he recalled. “Here’s this tangible Hollywood figure in a backyard estate with a totem stick … that was surrounded by cactus.”

Langdon schooled a stick was used for burials, and that there were stays of a male inside before Barrymore had it erected during his home. Langdon does not know what happened to a stays after they were private from a pole.

Museum officials didn’t know a stick was stolen. With accede from genealogical leaders, Langdon came to Honolulu in 2013 to inspect a pole, environment into suit a repatriation routine saved by a Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

On Thursday, 7 Tlingit genealogical members who trafficked to Honolulu from a southeast encampment of Klawock wore lei, sang gloomy songs, handed out gifts and thanked Hawaii for holding good caring of a pole.

“We too also are sea people,” pronounced Jonathan Rowan, master carver and informative edu cator. “We live on an island also.”

With a smell of cedar wafting in a air, his daughter Eva Rowan brushed 3 feathers along a stick pieces temperament forged images of a torpedo whale, a raven, an eagle and a wolf.

“It gives my heart good assent that my ancestors can go home,” she said. “I feel my father’s people here. we feel my grandfather’s people here, giving us strength right now.”

Only a tip territory of a stick was displayed quickly in a museum, and a stick spent many of a years in Honolulu in a climate-controlled basement.

“I take some comfort in a fact that we’ve taken good caring of it,” pronounced Stephan Jost, a museum’s director.

It was among some-more than 100 totem poles that once stood in a aged encampment of Tuxecan on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, that was inhabited by a Tlingit people, a museum said.

Of a strange Tuxecan poles, usually dual remain, both in Klawock, a encampment of 800 people where a clan moved, acco rding to a museum.

The pieces were cradled in make-up froth in wooden crates that museum workers hermetic after a ceremony. The stick will leave a museum Friday, and set cruise for Alaska on Tuesday.

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