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  2. Trade beads - Wikipedia

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    In sixteenth-century continental North America, trade beads (sometimes called aggry and slave beads) were decorative glass beads used as a token money to exchange for goods, services and slaves (hence the name). The beads were integrated in Native American jewelry using various beadwork techniques. Trade beads were also used by early Europeans ...

  3. Billiken - Wikipedia

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    Since that first appearance in Alaska, some Inuit carvers began to include the billiken in the collection of figurines they created. [1] By the 1960s the Billiken was ubiquitous in larger Alaskan cities like Anchorage, and heavily touristed areas. Billikens were often carved from Alaskan ivory and were used in jewelry and knick-knacks.

  4. Native American jewelry - Wikipedia

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    Wanesia Spry Misquadace (Fond du Lac Ojibwe), jeweler and birch bark biter, 2011 [1]Native American jewelry refers to items of personal adornment, whether for personal use, sale or as art; examples of which include necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings and pins, as well as ketohs, wampum, and labrets, made by one of the Indigenous peoples of the United States.

  5. Charges filed in jewelry scam reported around Alaska - AOL

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    October 7, 2023 at 11:59 PM. Oct. 7—At least four people from Romania, one of them in custody, face charges connected to a jewelry sales scam that continues to target people along Alaska's road ...

  6. Dentalium shell - Wikipedia

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    Wishram woman wearing a dentalium shell bridal headdress and earrings, photo by Edward Curtis. Peoples of the Northwest Pacific Coast would trade dentalium into the Great Plains, Great Basin, Central Canada, Northern Plateau and Alaska for other items including many foods, decorative materials, dyes, hides, macaw feathers which came from Central America, turquoise from the American Southwest ...

  7. The Great Alaskan Bowl Co.: More Than Just Wooden Bowls - AOL

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    Once logs arrive at the Great Alaskan Bowl Co., they go through a 22-step process of carving, sanding and oiling to become wooden bowls, says cutter and sander Klaus Reeck. "The kind of bowl and ...

  8. 20 vintage photos of Alaska from before it became a state - AOL

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    Weather. 20 vintage photos of Alaska from before it became a state. Gabbi Shaw. August 9, 2024 at 1:47 PM. Alaska has been inhabited for thousands of years, but became part of the US only 65 years ...

  9. Alaska Native art - Wikipedia

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    Alaska Native cultures are rich and diverse, and their art forms are representations of their history, skills, tradition, adaptation, and nearly twenty thousand years of continuous life in some of the most remote places on earth. These art forms are largely unseen and unknown outside the state of Alaska, due to distance from the art markets of ...

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