As the Municipality of Anchorage nears the end of its 50th anniversary year, city leaders hope to incorporate the traditional quillwork designs of the Dena’ina people into its long-standing municipal ...

Since he was around 10 years old, artist Joe Big Mountain—who is Mohawk, Cree, and Comanche—has been drawn to working with porcupine quills. Today, he makes one-of-a-kind statement quillwork earrings ...

Porcupine quills are a precious material for Indigenous artists because they can’t be purchased just anywhere – artists must ...

Head bent toward her work, Carolyn Simon uses tweezers to carefully pull a porcupine quill through a tiny hole in a piece of birch bark. She folds the quill with her fingers and then guides it through ...

Gladstone changed into this glittering black dress for the Vanity Fair Oscars party. Quilled rosettes and blue mountain motifs accent the quillwork neckline. Courtesy of Gucci, Joe Big Mountain of ...

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Together with the Big Mountains, De Sarno created a midnight-blue velvet Gucci design for Gladstone that features a bustier silhouette and a matching cape adorned with floral quillwork motifs. “One ...