DENVER — Porcupine quills, Elk teeth, Dentalium shells, and feathers are Indigenous art materials that predate the European introduction of colorful beads. Of these ancient materials, quills can be ...

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 ...

In the early 1600s, French colonizers in what’s now northern Maine and Atlantic Canada wrote admiringly of the native Micmacs’ ornamented fur and leather apparel — robes, bracelets, belts, and ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2010. Principal faculty advisor: Vicki Cassman, Dept. of Art Conservation. "This is a technical study of pre-1856 Eastern Woodlands quillwork dyes, prompted by ...

DENVER—The death of a much-loved North American porcupine last month at the Denver Zoo had an unexpectedly happy ending. When the zoo announced the passing of Quill the porcupine on its social media, ...

Jo Esther Bear offers the same advice. She's sitting in Regina's Lodge at the On-A-Slant Village at Fort Lincoln State Park south of Mandan, sun from the earthlodge's smoke hole resting on her hands ...

Chelsea Kaiah, "Coyote Head" (2019), Czech cut beads, black rhinestone banding, blue-dyed porcupine quills, natural quills, and hide (image courtesy the artist) Success! Your account was created and ...