Art and Artists

In 1993 Chilkat weavers gathered in Hoonah to share knowledge and make an Indigenous Weavers Statement and published it in Raven's Bones Journal - November 1995

Ernestine pictured far right. Daily Sitka Sentinel, Friday, October 23, 1998.

Ernestine shows Mary Willis of Angoon the proper technique of splitting spruce roots during a well-attended workshop held in Angoon.

Spruce root baskets: Keeping an art form alive. Preview edition August 30-September 5, 1985.

Ernestine Hanlon-Abel is pictured in the bottom photograph spruce root weaving.

Ernestine Hanlon-Abel demonstrates Chilkat weaving in the photograph at right. Printed in the Galleries section of the Anchorage Daily News, Sunday March 15, 1987.

Second Annual Southeast Alaska Native Art Exhibit, Kettleson Memorial Library, Sitka, Alaska October 4 - November 15, 1987.