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'''Description:''' After the [[w:Battle of Sitka|Russian-Tlingit Battle of Sitka in 1804]], peace talks were conducted, and [[w:Alexander Andreyevich Baranov|Aleksandr Baranov]], the first governor of colonial Russian Alaska and manager of the Russian-America Company, presented the ''[[w:Tlingit clans|Kiks.adi]]'' Sitka Tlingit leaders with a large medallion, on which was found the Russian imperial symbol. Since that time, the [[orthodoxwiki:Double-headed eagle|double-headed eagle]] has been a motif widely used in [[w:Tlingit people|Tlingit]] art.<br>
::* <snmall>''[http://qmackie.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/double-headed-eagles/ Two Views of Double-Headed Eagles].'' '''Northwest Coast Archaeology'''. Posted on March 1, 2010. Retrieved: 2013-10-05.</small>
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