English: Captioned "Totem poles at Kaigan or Howkan ". A house with horizontal siding and glass windows, totem poles, a bell on a pole tower, and two fishing canoes. Scidmore's text makes it clear that this location was Howkan on Long Island, Cordova Bay, Alaska and that the original village of Kaigahnee, as she spells it, was a different place "many miles distant"; she says that the traders called the present village Kaigahnee more often than Howkan. From her description this is the house of Chief Skolka, the bell resulting from its use as a schoolhouse.

The original photograph from which this engraving was made was possibly by Scidmore, 1883. A photographic print [1] of the original image was produced by I.G. Davidson Photos of Portland Oregon as number 218, but there is no indication Davidson ever went to Alaska. The photographer is unidentified, possibly an employee [2], possibly Scidmore. Davidson's caption is "Indian Church at Kaigan, Alaska".

Author's name on the publication was given as E. Ruhamah Scidmore.