Handmade moose hide gloves riding several inches past the wrist for
maximum warmth, with intricate beadwork, will cost $200 and up on the website.
The NSF grant also included funds to run computer camps for Alaskan high
school students focusing on e-commerce and web design .

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Rowe Pottery Introduces Provincialware Line of Pottery

1, the website http://www."
In Gilbert 's town of Arctic Village, with a population of about 160,
people have been using moose and caribou hides, wood and other natural
materials to make moccasins, vests, gloves, snowshoes and fish spears for
generations. In a bow to modern times, however, some of the native crafts
people have added cell phone and checkbook holders to their list of wares.

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(Logo: http://www. And because of their remote locations, food
and other supplies are very expensive. Salaried jobs are few - a post master
and teacher, perhaps - and many families make ends meet only with the help of
government assistance.

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com/shop/specials /index. Some of the crafts people will make special order items for
customers."
They may still hunt, but must pay $5 a gallon for gas for their
all-terrain vehicles. They don't have mortgages , but stock up on food
supplies at the grocery store.

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"Our Historical Collections have experienced a great deal of success.

Rowe Pottery Works
404 England Street * Cambridge, WI 53523
(608) 423-3363 * (800) 356-7687 * FAX: (608) 423-4273 *
http: //www.

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Philadelphia University, founded in 1884, is a private university with
3 ,500 full- and part-time students enrolled in more than 40 undergraduate and
graduate programs.

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"As we progressed through the development process, we sought
input on design and functionality from our customers and staff. A coordinator will travel to small villages to try to bring
crafts people on board, working to negotiate prices and forge economic
agreements where mostly an informal economy now exists.

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Several new pieces are being introduced with this collection including a
vinegar/oil cruet set and a dip cooler, which maintains a lower temperature
for dips and other sauces without the need for refrigeration.html) and in many fine stores
around the country. For hundreds of years , residents lived off the land, hunting and
fishing and making their own homes.

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com will be up and running,
offering Gilbert and others living in the vast interior of Alaska an
opportunity to sell their crafts worldwide and bring some money into their
cash-poor villages.

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Alaskan Natives in Remote Villages to Sell Traditional Handmade Crafts Over the Internet

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Since then, Rowe Pottery has
been making museum quality reproductions of Early American salt-glaze crocks
and jugs.com

This release was issued on behalf of the above organization by
Send2Press(TM), a unit of Neotrope(R). Three years ago, Dinero started making visits
to the remote outposts of Arctic Village and Nulato, with the hope of creating
a way for the people living there to earn some money from their crafts. But as the culture became more open to
modern ways, most natives are no longer able to sustain a lifestyle of living
off the land. The computer camps are designed not only to train students to
work on the arcticways website, but to prepare them for a range of high-tech
opportunities in the work world.

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, Rowe Pottery Works
(http://www.
Eskimos, on the other hand, are part of the Inupiat population of native
Alaskans. The website itself will be
based in Fort Yukon, under the auspices of the Council of Athabascan Tribal
Governments.

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rowepottery. We
wanted to create a new collection that took inspiration from the Historical,
yet was practical for everyday use," explained Justin Janisch, Rowe Pottery
Works president. What
started as a two-person pottery studio is now a group of artisans, each with
their own unique talent and skills.
On Oct.

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"The Provincialware pottery now
provides our customers with a distinct choice of pottery options ," he said.arcticways.
Smaller leather items, such as pouches and cell phone holders, will cost $25
to $40, and leather barrettes and beaded earrings will be priced at about $40
to $60.
"But it's very difficult to make a go of it in these villages.
The website will allow Alaskan Natives from over a large stretch of land
to contribute crafts to sell via the Internet.

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com) today introduced its newest line of pottery, called
Provincialware.com

Traditional Alaskan native moccasins that lace up will cost $150 or more.
"People stay because of the culture, lifestyle and environment ," says
Dinero, who has also spent time studying nomadic Bedouin in the Middle East. "But we want to bring some hope into these communities, which tend
to be depressed, and bring some opportunities for the next generation.

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CAMBRIDGE, Wis. Their
suggestions added a perspective that definitely improved the collection," he
continued.

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The University includes Schools of Architecture, Business Administration,
Design and Media, Engineering and Textiles, Liberal Arts, and Science and
Health .

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The Provincialware collection also represents a subtle change from the
company's 30-year tradition of focusing on salt-glaze pottery. In addition, the line has recently expanded to include new
products, warm color and bold designs.

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This decorative yet functional pottery is described in terms
of simple elegance. There are 34 pieces
in this collection including mixing bowls, canisters , pitchers and mugs. Soon, under a new cooperative program, Brenda Gilbert and
other Alaskan Natives living far from cities will be able to sell their
handmade crafts throughout the world using the 21st century tools of
e-commerce.
The natives of the Alaskan interior - a huge area roughly the size of the
Midwest - are among the most northern band of American Indians, Dinero says.

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com/shop /specials/index.
Provincialware is available for purchase at the Rowe Pottery Works company
store located in downtown Cambridge, WI, online at the company web site
(http://www. http://www. Two camps were held
last summer, and two more are scheduled for this summer, each including 15 to
20 students.

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Interest in collecting antique cobalt
blue decorated salt-glaze crocks and jugs was the inspiration to change the
studio's pottery product line in early 1980.
The project was spearheaded by Steven Dinero, a Philadelphia University
professor of human geography, with the help of a $600 ,000 grant from the
National Science Foundation. "We're
trying to take advantage of opportunities that the Internet and the
information economy offer that don't rely on the traditional road system .
In this rough stretch of interior Alaska, the towns are off-road and
remote.

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"This new line
will provide people with pottery that affords more flexibility for a variety
of decorating styles ," Janisch explained.

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These honey-colored pieces start with simple floral
patterns that weave through the collection, becoming more ornate as they
flourish on increasingly larger pieces of the collection .

About Rowe Pottery Works
Rowe Pottery Works was established in 1975 in Cambridge , Wisconsin.rowepottery.Send2Press.
"We don't expect to make a lot of money off this website, " Dinero
explains.

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NSF Grant Offers Cash-Poor Alaskan Natives the Opportunity to Preserve Their
Heritage and Support Their Communities

PHILADELPHIA, In a remote Alaskan village, Brenda
Gilbert has been making traditional crafts for most of her life, creating
moccasins and barrettes, many with intricate beadwork, to give as gifts or to
use for trade.
"We're working with poor native communities that have little access to the
resources of the rest of Alaska and the lower 48 states," Dinero says.

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