Description
At N entrance to Tuxekan Narrows, W coast of Prince of Wales I., , 25 mi N of Klawak, Alex. Arch.
History
Name of a former Tlingit Indian village published in 1895 as "Tuxeau" and in 1899 as "Tuxecan" by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS). Hodge (1910, p. 858), Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE), says "Tuxican. An old Tlingit town belonging to the Henya * * *. Formerly it was the chief Henya town, but the Henya have now moved to Klawak."