Using porcupine quills for artistic purposes exists nowhere else on Earth and represents one of the earliest forms of ...

As the Municipality of Anchorage nears the end of its 50th anniversary year, city leaders hope to incorporate the traditional quillwork designs of the Dena’ina people into its long-standing municipal ...

CTV National News: Keeping quillwork art alive A First Nations woman is keeping alive a traditional Indigenous art form involving intricate quillwork. Creeson Agecoutay reports.

Porcupine quills are a precious material for Indigenous artists because they can’t be purchased just anywhere – artists must source the material themselves or trade for them. Some artists aren't ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gladstone changed into this glittering black dress for the Vanity Fair Oscars party. Quilled rosettes and blue mountain motifs accent the quillwork neckline. Courtesy of Gucci, Joe Big Mountain of ...

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 ...

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