Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians elder and quillwork artist Yvonne Walker Keshick will be visiting Birmingham and ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 90 works of porcupine quill art are on display until the end of the year in Isabella County, the first of its kind to be fully bilingual. On display at the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe’s ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A traveling exhibition featuring more than 90 works of Anishinaabe quill art is currently on display at the Eiteljorg Museum in downtown Indianapolis. “Gaawii Eta-Go Aawizinoo ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage. Christine Toulouse remembers holding a warm cup of tea as her mother and grandmother first taught her how to pluck a porcupine. The ...

After moving to Cleveland in 2019, Beth Bush was feeling culturally disconnected from her Potawatomi tribe in Michigan. It prompted her to return to her practice of Indigenous beading and learn the ...

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Eaten by wolves, found dead on a trail, run over by a truck: these are the ways porcupines gift me their quills. Traditional harvesting of quills entails tossing a blanket onto the back of the ...

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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 ...