Beaded Sealskin Earrings

These beautiful sealskin earrings are lined with the vibrant colours of the rainbow. Red, orange, yellow, green, and blue beads run along the edge creating an ulu shaped border around the sealskin. Purple gems ornament the bottom edge of the earrings. 

An ulu is a tool traditionally used by Inuit women as an all-purpose knife. It is utilized in applications as diverse as skinning and cleaning animals, cutting a child's hair, cutting food and, if necessary, trimming blocks of snow and ice used to build igloos.

Beads, sealskin*
Approx. 6 x 6 cm
Registration no. A99-40258 

*This item cannot be shipped outside of Canada due to the Marine Mammal Protection Act

Mary Hunter is from the community of Umiujaq in Nunavik, Quebec. She learned basic beading from her mother and she has been beading ever since. Mary creates beautiful beaded earrings with sealskin. She loves to bead for stress release and finds it calming. Mary now lives in Montreal and continues making beaded jewelry with traditional designs and objects worked into them.