Learn the ancient Tlingit tradition of wood carving with artist Richard A. Beasley. Projects in Tlingit Wood Carving, How to Carve a Tlingit Tray show how to make a traditional tray, paint, and paintbrushes. You'll also learn how to inlay abalone and opercula into wood. Learn techniques used for millennia by some of the world's most accomplished artists-the Tlingit of Southeast Alaska.

Tlingit Wood Carving: How to Carve a Tlingit Tray

Arts & Photography

Beasley, Richard A.

Dye, Kathy

History & Criticism

Sealaska Heritage Institute

Learn the ancient Tlingit tradition of wood carving with artist Richard A. Beasley. Projects in Tlingit Wood Carving, How to Carve a Tlingit Hat show how to make a traditional hat, paint, and paintbrushes. You'll also learn how to inlay abalone and opercula into wood. Learn techniques used for millennia by some of the world's most accomplished artists-the Tlingit of Southeast Alaska.

Tlingit Wood Carving: How to Carve a Tlingit Hat

Learn the ancient Tlingit tradition of wood carving with artist Richard A. Beasley. Projects in Tlingit Wood Carving, How to Carve a Tlingit Mask show how to make a traditional mask, paint, and paintbrushes. You'll also learn how to inlay abalone and opercula into wood. Learn techniques used for millennia by some of the world's most accomplished artists-the Tlingit of Southeast Alaska.

Tlingit Wood Carving: How to Carve a Tlingit Mask

Alaskan Haida Phrasebook

Lawrence, Erma

Sealaska Heritage Institute's Dictionary of Alaskan Haida is the product of years of documentation of the Haida language with assistance from fluent Elders. It's a must-have resource for language learners and for people who are interested in learning more about the Haida culture. The Dictionary of Alaskan Haida is the most comprehensive dictionary for the Alaskan dialect of Haida, with over 5500 entries. It contains several thousand example sentences gathered from the last remaining fluent speakers in Alaska.

Dictionary of Alaskan Haida

Reference

Lachler, Dr. Jordan

Words, Language & Grammar

Sealaska Heritage Institute's Dictionary of Tlingit is the product of years of documentation of the Tlingit language with assistance from fluent Elders. It's a must-have resource for language learners and for people who are interested in learning more about the Tlingit culture. The Dictionary of Tlingit is the first to include nouns and verbs and all the minor word categories such as adjectives, adverbs, and interjections in a single resource. The vast majority of the verb forms have never before been documented or published. It also includes example sentences for most of the entries, which illustrates the words in a context.

Dictionary of Tlingit

Edwards, Keri

Clan At.óowu in Distant Lands provides an overview of Tlingit collections held by museums in Europe and Russia and breaks the ground in providing documentation on where these objects reside abroad. The paper includes a table showing museums that have Tlingit pieces and the approximate sizes of their collections. It also provides some details on the items plus a few photos, including an image of a very unusual war helmet depicting a woman wearing a labret.

Box of Knowledge. Clan At.oowu in Distant Lands: An Overview of Tlingit Art in European and Russian Museums (Box of Knowledge Series)

Jones, Zachary R.

A young Haida girl with eyes like no other is lost to the sea. Heartbroken, her people search for their Dagwaang (dear one). What they discover is that ever-so-quiet wonder that tells them the world is truly magic.

Killer Whale Eyes

Literature & Fiction

Segundo, Sondra Simone

Genre Fiction

Art is integral to the life ways of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian. It surrounds us and it holds us up. Our Northwest Coast art is ingrained in the social fabric and oral histories of our clans. It is characterized by formline—a term used to describe the unique artistic style of the indigenous people of the Northwest Coast. Formline is a composition of lines whose widths vary to create form. The overall collection of these compose an image or design.     The formline designs may represent stories of Raven (the Trickster), historic events, clan crests, or other concepts. Formline is an art that dates back more than two thousand years (Brown 1998).     Two-dimensional formline is depicted on objects such as bentwood boxes, clan hats, and house screens. Though formline is drawn in two dimensions, it transforms to be adapted to three-dimensional pieces, such as masks and totem poles.     In this booklet we hope to provide a concise and easy-to-understand guide for interpreting Northwest Coast formline art.

A Basic Guide to Northwest Coast Formline Art

Worl, Rico Lanaat'

tlaa, Shaadoo'

Gregory, Donald Heendei

The Beginning Tlingit Workbook is an extension of the landmark book Beginning Tlingit, which was edited by the late linguist Richard Dauenhauer and his wife, Nora Dauenhauer, a fluent Tlingit speaker and scholar. The workbook was written and compiled by Lance (X’unei) A. Twitchell, a language student of the Dauenhauers who is an assistant professor of Alaska Native languages at the University of Alaska Southeast (UAS). Twitchell’s work was informed by generations of teachers who have been taking what they know or were learning into classrooms over the past thirty years, and the result of their feedback is this first edition of the Beginning Tlingit Workbook. The goal of creating this workbook is to transition towards image-based language learning to encourage word-image association instead of Tlingit-word to English-word association. Additions have been made, and some optional grammatical explanations have been added through a number of different sections, but the basic philosophy remains the same: learn nouns that start off with sounds familiar to English speakers and begin introducing nouns with more challenging sounds. Phrases are introduced through substitution drills, where students can learn something basic and then make it more dynamic by adding other elements they are learning.

Beginning Tlingit Workbook

Twitchell, Lance X'unei A.

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