Alaska’s Secret Door
By Judy Ferguson Illustrated by Nikola Kocic’
In 1975, the Ferguson family left Alaska’s road system by canoe. They passed through an invisible door via the Tanana, Yukon and Innoko Rivers, plunging into the Athabascan Interior, where the river is the only road. Wind, sand and salmon, Alaska’s Secret Door presents Emmitt Peters, the winner of the 1975 Iditarod Trail Dogsled Race, fishwheels, and the mask dances of the lower Yukon. With maps and glossary, Secret Door is more than a children’s book; it is an experience into the heart of Alaska.
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This delicate hand woven basket was created by renowned Tlingit artist Teri Rofkar of Sitka, Alaska. Teri gathers and prepares all her own spruce roots and weaves them into beautiful replicas of baskets used by her ancestors. This example of a gathering basket is two inches in diameter.
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This beautiful pair of woven red cedar earrings was hand crafted by Haida/Tlingit artist Della Cheney. Each miniature basket has accents of dyed red cedar stripes along with small red glass beads. The baskets are approximately half an inch and hang from gold earring hooks. We also have a woven red cedar hat necklace that would pair perfectly with these earrings.
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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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