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Your purchase at Ilanka Store helps preserve Native heritage and culture by supporting individual Alaska Native artists. Learn more about Alaska Native art and culture by visiting the Ilanka Cultural Center web site.
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Alaska's First Peoples
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Alaska Eskimo Footwear
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Our Price: $15.50
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Our Price: $54.95
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By Judy Ferguson Illustrated by Nikola Kocic’
Alaska’s First People presents Tahita, Travels With Grampa, an Alaskan odyssey from the Aleutians to the arctic in 1898 by foot and by kayak. T.A.H.I.T.A. (Tlingit, Aleut, Haida, Inuit/Eskimo, Tsimshian, Athabascan) portrays Alaska’s cultures in their native lands.
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Alaska Eskimo Footwear celebrates the incredible beauty and spiritual significance of the shoes and boots worn by Alaska Native peoples. Stunning photography brings the barsh and striking environment of the North alive and demonstrates how essential footwear was to Native survival, while Eskimo seamstresses, dancers, and hunters explain the symbolic meaning of their traditional patterns and decorative details. This full-color volume features photographs from museum collections in Canada, the United States, and Russia, as contributors from each major Alaska Eskimo group—Inupiaq, Yup’ik, Alutiiq, and St. Lawrence Islander—discuss skin preparation, boot construction, and decoration. A tribute to exquisite art and the women who practice it, Alaska Eskimo Footwear brings the beauty of the North—and its traditional wares—to life.
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Moose and Martin Beaded Bracelet
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Always Getting Ready - Yup’ik Eskimo Subsistence in Southwest Alaska
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Our Price: $200.00
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Our Price: $35.00
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Moose and martin bone beaded bracelet created by Athabascan artist Riba deWilde of Koyukon, Alaska.
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Always Getting Ready - Yup’ik Eskimo Subsistence in Southwest Alaska
By James H. Barker
In this remarkable book, James Barker follows the Yup’ik Eskimo of Alaska’s Yukon-Kuckokwim Delta through their year’s cycle, beginning with spring seal hunting and ending with the winter dancing that celebrates life on the land. Striking duotone photographs and accompanying text capture a people alert to every opportunity. Whether they are waiting for the weather to clear for hunting or preparing testimony on the effects of oil exploration, they are, in the words of Yup’ik Agnes Kelly Bostrom, “always getting ready.”
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Ulu Earrings
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Athabascan Hair Ornament
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Our Price: $65.00
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Our Price: $200.00
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Ulu earrings created from walrus ivory and mastodon tusk by Gertie Eutuk of Shishmaref, Alaska.
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Athabascan artist Emma Hildebrand crafted this traditional hair ornament with a combination of smoked moose hide, dyed and tufted caribou hair. Glass beads and porcupine quills embellish this one-of-a-kind piece. 5x3in
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