Material Traditions: Dene Quill Art

For a week in October 2013, the Smithsonian Institution's Arctic Studies Center in Alaska brought together three artists who work with porcupine quills, which were stitched, wrapped, and woven onto Athabascan skin clothing, moccasins and bags. The artists exchanged ideas and techniques and studied museum collections, working together to re-discover historical techniques nearly lost. They also shared their knowledge with museum visitors and staff.
To see how-to and interview videos, please visit the project microsite at Sharing Knowledge Alaska: www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/html/sha...

[@Collins5801]

Present tense is a more accurate description as we are still here alive and creating.

[@alexandrahenderson4368]

Literally we all either have aunties and uncles or ourselves who have taught us these things and hunt or (find) porcupine and stuff

[@debbiesmith6293]

That's alot of work but made with love.

[@shereneliscom6736]

Wish this video showed how she first started from the beginning. Do you have any videos on beginning to end?

[@d.m.6397]

Incredible

[@lottesrensen8004]

Love this

[@susantrinkletamayo1673]

The CC at the beginning should identify the works as Athabascan. The voice recognition software interpreted it as "essence and bags" Can this be changed?

[@duanevigue1603]

Pork-U-pine, not Pork-E-pine