Batuk'enelyashi : natural dyes from Dena'ina lands
Title:
Batuk'enelyashi : natural dyes from Dena'ina lands
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by June (Simeonoff) Pardue and Destin and Dawn Biddison.
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Publication Information:
[Place of publication not identified] : Alaska Native Heritage Center ; Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center, 2023.
Physical Description:
2 DVDs (165 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
General Note:
Additional resources available online.
Abstract:
"In 2022, the Alaska Native Heritage Center collaborated with the Alaska office of the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center on a project to perpetuate and strengthen Alaska Native knowledges of natural dyes stewarded for generations. The Batuk’enelyashi: Natural Dyes from Dena’ina Lands project – led by Alaska Native master artist June (Simeonoff) Parude, assisted by her granddaughter and apprentice Destinee VonScheele – included research, harvesting, experimentation, documentation and a weeklong educational workshop attended by an intergenerational group of Alaska Native artists and students. All work took place on the lands of the Dena’ina Athabascan people. The project was inspired by the foundational work on documenting natural dyes by Elder Rita Pitka Blumenstein in the 1984 book Earth Dyes, Nuunam Qaralirkai: Dyes for Grass Made from Natural Materials, published by the Institute of Alaska Native Arts." --provided by publisher.
Other Relationship Entry:
Complemented by (work) : Pardue, June (June Simenoff). Batuk'enelyashi : natural dyes from Dena'ina Lands. [Place of publication not identified] : Alaska Native Heritage Center & Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center ; 2023.
Contents:
Disc 1. Introduction -- Meet Insturctor June Simeonoff Pardue -- Meet Apprentice Destinee VonScheele -- About Harvesting -- Harvesting Berries -- Harvesting from Trees -- Harvesting from Other Plants -- Dye Bath Recipes with Berries -- Dyeing with Berries Disc 2. Dye Bath Recipes with Tree Bark -- Dyeing with Tree Bark -- Dye Bath Recipes & Dying with Leaves -- Dye Bath Recipe & Dying with Cottonwood Catkins -- Dye Bath Recipes & Dyeing with Other Plants -- Hand-Tanning Salmon Skin & Adding Dye.