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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Christine Toulouse remembers holding a warm cup of tea as her mother and grandmother first taught her how to pluck a porcupine. The trio sat on the front porch of her mother's home in Sagamok ...

In addition to their natural purpose of deterring predators, porcupine quills can also be used to make art. On May 20, the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center will hold a quillwork workshop, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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