Item #512
Authentic Native Alaskan Cupik Eskimo Hand Woven Tundra Grass Basket Earrings
Bernadette Maston has been making Handmade woven baskets of all sizes for 45 years She was taught by her mother Matilda Tulim a Alaskan Native Cupik Eskimo from Chevak Alaska. Her mother would harvest Tundra Grass from Hooper Bay Alaska and turn it into these beautiful woven baskets
Bernadette made these baskets for me I turned them into a amazing pair of earrings.They are posts the feather hangs for the back of the earring and floats behind the ear Silver feather representing freedom to hand down known knowledge from generation to generation Both baskets open up and r usefull in storing a small token maybe something very close to your heart that you would like to keep on your person
This is a Recycled Item harvested from the wilds of Alaska we are recycling one design at a time
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