FAIRBANKS — It took Dixie Alexander seven months and one day to complete a hand-sewn fur parka with intricate beading and fur trim work. It is a record for her. The last one took nine months.

One Alaska Native woman is putting a new spin on the ... The garment was originally made of animal skin or gut and was worn over a fur parka to keep it clean. As stores became more common in ...

Lukin will create a full-length traditional fur parka using the ... with me at the same time.” Parka is the traditional regalia that young women in Northwest Alaska often wear during Miss ...

FAIRBANKS — First graders in Chris Villano’s classroom at Denali Elementary School excitedly lined up to try on a handsewn Alaska Native parka featuring a thick fur ruff. “See how the ...

The translucent coat, trimmed with fur and seashells ... become more commonplace," she said. The parka will stay with Chugachmiut, the Alaska Native non-profit agency that put the class together ...

but we as Indigenous people use fur to respect the animal,” says Golga Oscar, a Yup’ik artist based in Bethel, Alaska. Currently, Oscar is working on designing traditional parkas made of ...

and a native Alaskan in a fur-lined parka. The Eskimo became the fleet-wide tail logo in 1976, although in 1988 the carrier considered moving away from the Eskimo to a mountain scene on the tail.

Facebook is continuing to remove posts by an Alaska Native artist selling items made of sea otter fur despite the social media company stating the problem had been fixed, an Alaska Native cultural ...

Curtis: Unpublished Alaska, the Lost Photographs ... Kilk-ni-sik, in white fur parka, Cape Prince of Wales Courtesy of the Muskegon Museum of Art Native News Online points out that Curtis ...