what we're looking at is the top figure of a kalinga to poll from the southern part of southeast alaska. the alaska natives who created this were commemorating a very historical event, and that is the sighting of the first non-native explorer to enter into alaska. their way of recording history is not in writing, it is an carving and artwork and oral traditions. that particular plan saw the first spanish for traders and explorers here. and explorers here. they carved a total poll. they feet is an artifact of first russian people that came to alaska. a legale following doctrine called the doctrine of discovery that gave europeans and any christian nation a primacy in claiming title to land and resources. they did not recognize any native claim to alaska. instead, this doctor and require them to put proof, physical proof, of their presence on the land in the form of metal tablets or other artifacts like this one which was buried underground in secret locations. another country challenged the russians claim to alaska, they could say, there is a place here that we place there in 1841 that i