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Cu'pik weaver shares art and culture

Shaleece Haas

Image by Shaleece Haas

Emily Johnston weaves a traditional Cu'pik coil basket.

SITKA, ALASKA (2009-06-05) If you visited the Sheldon Jackson Museum recently, you might have seen a woman in a floral-print kuspuk teaching a cruise ship visitor to play Eskimo yo-yo. Emily Johnston, a master weaver from Nunivak, is one of thirteen native artists participating in the museum’s demonstrator program this summer. KCAW’s Shaleece Haas spoke with Johnston about her art.