also in southeast alaska.nd t is a woven tunic what that refers to is a style of art that's woven mountain get to hair and then woven over strands of cedar bark. then the specific design style, which has these wonderful bold designs that portray the emblems or of particular clans. in this case, this very abstract design represents the diving killer whale. anyone from that community seeing this would be instantly aware of the person's clan affiliation, which would be -- and this is an emblem of the clan. to explain the design, this is a diving killer whale. the large eyes down at the bottom are the whale's eyes. it's diving. its face is at the bottom. its body rises above. and then you see two spirit faces. these are particular separate souls of the whale. one at the blow hole and one that represents the body of the whale. and then the tail of the whale has eyes built into it. a tunic like this would be worn often at a ceremony and this is to -- the most important ones were memorials to someone who had died. th

june the glaciers of southeast alaska enough water to fill 40 million olympic-sized swimming pools. exxon valdez oil spill affected portions of the alaska coast. i was in eagle river near anchorage and it was all over the news. by the time i got to work, i knew all about it. my first reaction was disbelief. how could this happen? and the second reaction was just shocked at the enormity of it. they spilled i think 11 million gallons of oil and it covered 11,000 square miles of ocean. it was inconceivable until it happened. >> where wae were you working? for "the anchorage daily news" and i was a reporter. >> can you tell us what the history was of the oil industry in alaska? how large was it? >> the oil industry we know today got its start in alaska in 1967 when there was a huge oil strike in prudhomme bay. the pipeline began operating in 1973, and that is when the tanker traffic in prince william sound began, so about 15 years had passed before the spill. fromil industry in alaska, the day oil was discovered, had an in norma's land share -- had n enormous land share. money sondustry

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