TERI ROFKAR (1956-2016) TLINGIT & TERRY PYLES (20th CENTURY), NON-INDIGENOUS, KETCHIKAN, AK, Basket with Killer Whale Glass Bead Knob, 2004

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wove spruce root and glass bead, 2.75 x 1.5 x 1.5 in (7 x 3.8 x 3.8 cm)
inscribed by Teri Rofkar in black ink to an accompanying card, "Spruce Root from Tenakee / Springs / Glass bead by Terry Piles [sic] /(Ketchikan) / Woven for John / Price - Teri Rofkar / 2004".

This lidded spruce root basket with glass knob bead was made by prolific Tlingit artist, Cháas' koowú tláa (Teri Rofkar). Rofkar is widely known as a master of Raven’s tail...

This lidded spruce root basket with glass knob bead was made by prolific Tlingit artist, Cháas' koowú tláa (Teri Rofkar). Rofkar is widely known as a master of Raven’s tail weaving and spruce root basketry. She first learned weaving from her Tlingit grandmother, Eliza Monk, and was later taught by noted Haida weaver Delores Churchill and Tlingit weaver Ernestine Hanlon-Abel.

Rofkar’s weavings can be found in museums across North America including in the Penn Museum in Philadelphia, PA, the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC, and the Museum of the North in Fairbanks, AK. She received a Distinguished Artist award from the Rasmuson Foundation in 2013 and the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Fellowship in 2009.

This basket is constructed of spruce root in a twining style with angular stripes created with slip stitches. The same pattern is woven on the rim of the lid, which has a glass bead knob showing two killer whales made by Ketchikan artist, Terry Pyles.

–Sarah Raven

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Collection of John & Joyce Price, Seattle.

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TERI ROFKAR (1956-2016) TLINGIT & TERRY PYLES (20th CENTURY), NON-INDIGENOUS, KETCHIKAN, AK

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