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Welcome.
Your purchase at Ilanka Store helps preserve Native heritage and culture by supporting individual Alaska Native artists.
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Ulu Earrings
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Always Getting Ready - Yup’ik Eskimo Subsistence in Southwest Alaska
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Our Price: $65.00
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Our Price: $35.00
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Ulu earrings created from walrus ivory and mastodon tusk by Gertie Eutuk of Shishmaref, 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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Alaska Eskimo Footwear
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Halibut Fisherman
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Our Price: $54.95
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Our Price: $850.00
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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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Linda Duran is a Choctaw Apache artist living in Alaska. Her piece entitled "Halibut Fisherman" is hand sculpted of organic clay, adorned with faux gutstrip parka, wool, leather, otter, bone, and sinew.
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Aleut Art
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Alaska's First Peoples
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Our Price: $39.95
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Our Price: $15.50
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Aleut Art- Unangam Aguqaadangin
Now in a second edition, Aleut Art is a landmark work that provides a comprehensive picture of the Unangas, or Aleut people, and the place of art in their lives, both past and present.
Full of extraordinary color plates representing collections from museums throughout Europe and the United States, Aleut Art showcases wood, bone, and ivory work, as well as the famous kamleikas (waterproof parkas made of gut) for which the Aleut are known. A chapter on masks reproduces extraordinary wooden examples from the 19th century and situates them in their cultural context. Other topics include Aleut hunting visors, weaving, embroidery, and tattoo. Black covers both works recovered from archaeological sites and modern Aleut artists whose work now resides in museums worldwide.
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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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