Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (T&H) is pleased to announce Vicki Soboleff has been hired as the Cultural Heritage & Education Manager to be based in Lynnwood, Washington.
From eight in the morning until noon each day last week, students learned to weave cedar bark baskets with Haida basket weaver Holly Churchill during a spring break course at
ARTISTS STUDYING OLD SPRUCE-ROOT HAT DISCOVER NEW WEAVING TECHNIQUE
Tuesday PM (SitNews) - Two artists participating in Sealaska Heritage Institute’s (SHI) spruce-root mentorship program have discovered what is thought to be an old weaving technique that was lost to time.
Haida master weaver Delores Churchill and her apprentice, Tlingit and Haida artist Debbie Aanutein Head, made the find while studying an old spruce-root hat housed at the Alaska State Museum.
Through the mentorship program, Head was tasked with weaving a spruce-root hat similar to the museum’s so-called “Wilbur hat” (
above left). The piece was collected by Dr. B. K. Wilbur, who was the physician at the Sitka Industrial School in the 1890s and early 1900s, said the museum’s Curator of Collections Steve Henrikson.