What counts as an authentic Alaska Native article of handicrafts and clothing
What the document says“means an item composed wholly, or in some significant respect, of natural materials and that is produced, decorated, or fashioned in the exercise of traditional Alaska Native handicrafts by an Alaska Native who resides in Alaska and who dwells on the coast of the North Pacific Ocean or the Arctic Ocean without the use of a pantograph, multiple carvers, or any other mass copying device.”
The first of three terms the new subsection defines, and the one the rest of it turns on. Four tests are written into it: the item is wholly or in some significant respect of natural materials, it is produced, decorated, or fashioned in the exercise of traditional Alaska Native handicrafts, the maker is an Alaska Native who resides in Alaska and dwells on the coast of the North Pacific Ocean or the Arctic Ocean, and the work is done without a pantograph, multiple carvers, or any other mass copying device.
What the document actually says“means an item composed wholly, or in some significant respect, of natural materials and that is produced, decorated, or fashioned in the exercise of traditional Alaska Native handicrafts by an Alaska Native who resides in Alaska and who dwells on the coast of the North Pacific Ocean or the Arctic Ocean without the use of a pantograph, multiple carvers, or any other mass copying device.”
The item has to be made of natural stuff, all of it or a good part of it. It has to be made by hand in an old Alaska Native craft. The maker has to be an Alaska Native who lives on the coast. No copying machine may be used, and no team of carvers.
A pantograph is a tool that copies a shape over and over. The law rules that tool out here. It rules out other copying tools too. The coast named is the coast of the North Pacific Ocean or the Arctic Ocean.
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