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 ...

LEECH LAKE RESERVATION, Minn.—When you’re an artist working in porcupine quills, pain comes with the palette. The quills—needle-like animal hair— are sharp and barbed. “When they go in,” says Mel Losh ...

“To me, it's important,” Bush said. “It's a way of me reclaiming what was taken from us.” Bush has not only reconnected to her heritage, but she’s also become an award-winning artist. Porcupine quills ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amber Waboose said she often uses the natural colours in the quills to create the shading in her designs. (Submitted by Amber ...

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 ...

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 ...