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Heim / Cruise to Alaska / Juneau 39
Juneau
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From the whale watch trip: the back of a humpback whale is visible in the water near the shore.
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Figures that the picture with the most whale showing is blurry. :-/
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Downtown Juneau
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Tlingit art was everywhere.
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St. Nicholas's Russian Orthodox Cathedral, distinctive for its octagonal shape.
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Inside St. Nicholas's.
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Inside St. Nicholas's.
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Inside St. Nicholas's. What amazed me was that there were no pews like in most other churches. The same was true of St. Michael's in Sitka.
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View of Juneau looking down; we walked back up Franklin St., which is a steep hill.
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Another strange flower we found.
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Another view of St. Nicholas's.
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Ketchikan may have the most totem poles, but Juneau has some too. Apparently when the Christians came, they thought the natives worshiped the poles and tried to have them destroyed, but in reality they were a way of passing on histories in a culture that had no written language.
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Alaska state capitol building, Juneau.
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More Tlingit art.
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This depicts the Eagle and the Raven, the two major moieties (clans) of the Tlingit people. Everyone belongs to one or the other, and they can't marry within their own clans -- Eagles have to marry Ravens and vice versa. It's matrilineal, so you belong to whichever one your mother is.