Northwest Coast art, as it became known ... leaves the human body and goes to heaven or hell, Native Americans, including the Tlingit, believe in a dual spirit, one of which remains with the ...

In the late 1990s, Megan Smetzer was an art ... of Tlingit beading, little research had been done on the topic. Many museums held impressive collections of beadwork from a multitude of Native ...

Each Singletary sculpture was created to illuminate the enduring legacy of Tlingit culture and the transformative power of art. “Once you become a keeper of cultural knowledge, it becomes a ...