Chilkat

Chilkat cattle men, and the scraps and offal preserved by the Indians.

THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN 2010

Two of its great treasures are a boldly patterned, finely woven fringed Chilkat blanket c. 1832 and a subtly modeled, vibrantly painted Kaigani Haida female wooden mask, c. 1827, which the PEM received that same year from a seafaring captain.

Artifacts to Artworks Lee Rosenbaum 2012

Whereupon, being only savage Chilkat men, they put their heads together to kill him; but he slept like a cat, and, waking or sleeping, the chance never came.

THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN 2010

When the BBC decided to do a “World Safari,” broadcasting live from remote places around the planet linked by satellite, I was standing up to my knees in the Chilkat River in Alaska, surrounded by bears, bald eagles, and salmon swimming upstream between my legs, while talking to Sir David Attenborough in London.

One From The Hart Stefanie Powers 2010

Best thing he could think of was Chilkat State Park.

Ancient, Strange, and Lovely Susan Fletcher 2010

They stream onto the dock and are whisked off for 20-minute helicopter tours of the Chilkat Glacier or to the Wildlife Museum and Heritage Park with "" every species of Yukon wildlife represented in lifelike dioramas. ''

Why Can't We Get Away? 2008

Their projects included: travelling to Iran to learn skills and techniques of traditional Persian miniature painting; mentoring with a Chilkat weaver to connect the processes of dovetailing, interlocking and drawstring to recreate a full Chillkat dance apron.

PSA: Visual Arts Development Awards applications released « raincoaster 2007

With Colonel Snow they made one or two trips into the surrounding country, visiting the nearby Chilkat and Chilkoot villages, during two days that

The Boy Scouts on the Yukon Ralph Victor

That trial marked an epoch in early Yukon history, for, although its true significance was unsensed at the time, it really signalized the dawn of common honesty on the Chilkoot and the Chilkat trails, and it was the first move taken toward the disruption of organized outlawry -- a bitter fight, by the way, which ended only in the tragic death of Soapy Smith and the flight of his notorious henchmen.

The Winds of Chance Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

It was in this loosening of sentimental ties, in the breach of friendships and the birth of bitter enmities, where lay the deepest tragedy of the Chilkoot and the Chilkat trails.

The Winds of Chance Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913