no. 7905. Per Steve Henrikson, Curator, Alaska State Museum 2/1996: 54. scene, Wrangell, with Brown Bear canoe. Group of persons attending potlatch or funeral riding in the Brown Bear Canoe of Chief Shakes, Stikine Tlingit, Naanya.aayi clan, taken from Shakes Island, Wrangell. Sign mounted on the bow of the canoe reads "Shakes Canoe Brown Bear" (the canoe is in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C.). Twenty-seven people are seated in canoe, including a Caucasian minister and woman seated near the bow. Carved brown bear figures mounted on bow and stern (see also PCA 88-32 for another view of sculptures), and United States flag flying at the stern. Shakes Island and totem pole on left side of photo. Caption reads "Indian funeral." See also PCA 88-55.