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In this May 22, 2019 photo, Anastasia Hobson-George, right, works with weaver Lily Hope as the Artist-in-Residence at the Walter Soboleff Center in Juneau, Alaska. A Juneau artist is working to become the fifth person alive who knows how to make an increasingly rare type of traditional clothing. Tlingit weaver Hobson-George was recently announced as a winner of a Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award, and she plans to use the $7,500 grant that comes with her project award to learn how to make a sleeved tunic that incorporates two types of indigenous weaving. (Michael Penn/The Juneau Empire via AP)

Tlingit artist studies how to weave increasingly rare tunics

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In this Feb. 15, 2019 photo, weaver Lily Hope lays out woven squares for a new project called the Giving Strength Robe in Juneau, Alaska. Hope is organizing dozens of Chilkat and Ravenstail weavers from all over North America to weave 5-inch-by-5-inch squares that will be combined to make one traditional indigenous robe. Once completed, the robe will be given to Aiding Women in Abuse and Rape Emergencies (AWARE). (Michael Penn/The Juneau Empire via AP)

Alaska Native weaving project honors survivors of violence

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