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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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Always Getting Ready - Yup’ik Eskimo Subsistence in Southwest Alaska
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Alaska's First Peoples
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Our Price: $35.00
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Our Price: $15.50
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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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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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Harpoon Hunter
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Ivory mask Pin
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Our Price: $450.00
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Our Price: $95.00
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Beautifully carved by an artist from Shishmaref, Alaska, "Harpoon Hunter" is carved of whale bone and embellished with baleen inlay and a seal skin pouch.
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Ivory pin hand carved from walrus ivory with seal fur trim. Hand carved by Inupiat/Eskimo artist Carolyn Apangalook. 1in diameter
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Hand Woven Grass Basket
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Hand Woven Spruce Root Basket
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Our Price: $560.00
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Our Price: $280.00
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This lovely handwoven grass basket was created by Mary Gunlick, a Yupik artist from Kipnuk, Alaska using beach grass from western Alaska. It is embellished with embroidered flowers. Patterns on woven baskets traditionally identify where the piece originates.
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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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