During the Dene Quill Art project, two Athabascan artists and an ethnographic conservator shared quillwork techniques and develop new ones by studying historic museum objects. They shared their ...
A faint smell of smoke-tanned moose hide wafted through a workroom at the Anchorage Museum as pots of dyes simmered on heaters. Small piles of porcupine quills, small handmade looms, pieces of moose ...
Since he was around 10 years old, artist Joe Big Mountain—who is Mohawk, Cree, and Comanche—has been drawn to working with porcupine quills. Today, he makes one-of-a-kind statement quillwork earrings ...
In addition to their natural purpose of deterring predators, porcupine quills can also be used to make art. On May 20, the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center will hold a quillwork workshop, ...
When Kya-Rae Arthur was a young girl, her mother, Jamila James, made dresses, regalia and jewelry using methods her own mother had taught her. But when Arthur was a senior in high school, her mom told ...
WASHINGTON — Native Americans have a deep artistic sense and a great knowledge of the natural environment. This aesthetic can be seen in the objects of art, both decorative and useful at the new ...
Head bent toward her work, Carolyn Simon uses tweezers to carefully pull a porcupine quill through a tiny hole in a piece of birch bark. She folds the quill with her fingers and then guides it through ...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2010. Principal faculty advisor: Vicki Cassman, Dept. of Art Conservation. Summary "This is a technical study of pre-1856 Eastern Woodlands quillwork dyes, ...
Kay Sark is out on her back deck on Lennox Island First Nation in Prince Edward Island, sporting one yellow rubber glove. But the Mi'kmaw woman isn't wearing the glove to clean, she's wearing it to ...
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