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Kay Sark is out on her back deck on Lennox Island First Nation in Prince Edward Island, sporting one yellow rubber glove. But the Mi'kmaw woman isn't wearing the glove to clean, she's wearing it to ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...