Aeshia Upton - Ivory Dangle Earrings Bag and the ancestral traditional practices

and the ancestral traditional practices of my tribe

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58 inches long

her name means “singing bird” and I am her great great granddaughter

Aeshia Upton - Ivory Dangle Earrings Bag and the ancestral traditional practicesIvory and Gray Metallic Beads Handcrafted by Aeshia Upton. Aeshia Upton is from the village of Togiak, Alaska. She learned to love carving from her father and shes been beading sewing since the age of 7, taught to her by her mother. Aeshia receives walrus tusks ivory from the hunters of Togiak, as it is a traditional food they eat and use every part of, so it doesnt go to waste. Carving a particular item takes days to prepare before the final