Tlingit totem from the Northwest Coastal Region

• Whittle it out of wood and paint it OR form with clay OR dough to bake

and paint it!

Tlingit baskets

• Make out of weaving straw/grasses OR color paper to look like a weaved basket.

Tlingit bracelet

• Make out of wood and shells OR use an old bracelet and paste pieces of shell colored paper on it

Tlingit Mask

• Make it out of paper mache and paint it OR form it with clay and paint it.

Tlingit Carved spoon

• Whittle it out of wood OR form it out of clay around a wooden spoon.

• Tlingit halibut/fishing hook (Alaska)Complete with halibut hook, carved wood with iron barb. Decorated front section of the halibut hook is carved to represent a fish with a human figure emerging from its belly.Circa: 1880Length: 11in.

Make it out of wood and rope and a nail.

Written component1st paragraph: materials, how did you make it

realistic, steps to make it (use TRANSITION words: first, next, then, last, etc)

2nd paragraph: cultural region, tribe name, environment, natural resources used, how artifact was used, why they needed this artifact in their environment.

Email or print it out for the day of presentations!