Show Scientists W Would QuId Save Totem Poles in Alaska Scientific treatment Is being given to the last totem poles still standIng in the Indian villages alon along the coast COlst of Columbia and l so that these ancient emblems will be preserved says the San I Chronicle Most of the hundred odd remaining totem poles k known lown to bE beon on their original sites are cleaned oiled painted and repaired so as to stand for many years House poles grave gra monuments and other carved relics of the In- In Indians Indians are arc being treated in the same way There are numerous small carved totems throughout the Brit Brit- BritIsh British Ish Columbia and Alaska regIon and these are being preserved by bv govern government went ment experts Some ot of the tallest totems found fun base e measured nearly 70 feet the tallest still sUll In e existence beIng at Jasper Alberta where It stands 65 feet high with a base 0 feet under underground underground ground This totem was ed from the Queen Charlotte islands |