Student carvers learn craft of making Alaska Native musical instruments
Student carvers learn craft of making Alaska Native musical instruments
Wednesday at the Anchorage Museum‘s Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center, three students spent the day turning cedar planks into musical instruments.
Under the supervision of Tsimshian master carver John Hudson, Tlingit master carver Norman Jackson, and Haida master carver Donald Varnell, students from UAA learned how to use handmade tools to hollow out the cedar and make a whistle.
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