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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Christine Toulouse remembers holding a warm cup of tea as her mother and grandmother first taught ...

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 ...

An artist has created a sculpture of running wolves for a new Indigenous gathering space at Sudbury's Cambrian College. Kathryn Corbiere of ONE KWE Modern Fabrications blended traditional quillwork ...

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2:47 One artist is bringing back a rare type of artwork being showcased at the Saint Boniface Museum WINNIPEG — Dolorès Contré-Migwans is hoping to bring a disappearing Indigenous form of art back to ...