Local groups start work to prepare traditional dress

The Thursday night beading workshop is quiet, for now.

Soon, more than 20 prospective craftspeople will descend on the Johnson-O'Malley room at the Stikine Native Organizations building to finish headbands, octopus bags, and ceremonial vests ahead of this year's 2014 Celebration, a biannual gathering in Juneau of Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian Alaskan Natives.

For now, the loudest sound is that of the television, which plays "Alvin and the Chipmunks 3: Chipwrecked" for a future craftsman too young to handle a needle and thread.

Seven artisans worked to create an octopus bag, a bead-decked four-...

 
 

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