Eric Sowl

Oct 28, 2023 | wafb.com | Eric Sowl |Jordan Gartner

ANCHORAGE, Alaska ( KTUU/Gray News) - An Anchorage auction house says it has a rare item up for bid this week. Alaska Premier Auctions and Appraisals is holding an online auction on Sunday that will include over 200 items. One of the more interesting pieces that will be available is a complete mammoth skull with both tusks intact. Representatives with the auction say it's "one of finest woolly mammoth skulls in the world" complete with a pair of blue tusks that weigh more than 180 pounds each.

Oct 27, 2023 | alaskasnewssource.com | Eric Sowl

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - An Anchorage auction house has a once in a lifetime item up for bid this week. The current auction offered by Alaska Auctions and Appraisals features a complete mammoth skull with both tusks intact. To give you an idea of the size of this beast, each tusk is almost twelve feet long. The skull came from a gold claim in Fox, just outside of Fairbanks.

Oct 20, 2023 | alaskasnewssource.com | Eric Sowl

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - This past summer, social media began to buzz about Barbie. But this wasn’t about the movie Barbie — it was about Fish Camp Barbie. Fish Camp Barbie is an Indigenous scene created by an Anchorage artist and her daughters. It represents Barbie as a Koyukon Athabascan woman. She is culturally accurate, right down to the beadwork on her moose hide boots.

Oct 8, 2023 | alaskasnewssource.com | Eric Sowl

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Artists at the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage have finished carving Alaska’s first boarding school healing totem pole. It will be raised into a healing garden at 4 p.m. on Oct. 22. A traditional potlatch will follow the ceremony. The center is looking for donations of traditional foods and volunteers to prepare the food and help with the event. They expect over 1,000 people to attend. Copyright 2023 KTUU. All rights reserved.

Sep 29, 2023 | alaskasnewssource.com | Eric Sowl

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Bob Ross created hundreds of paintings for his “Joy of Painting” television program. Recently the piece called ‘A Walk in the Woods’ from the very first episode came up for sale. It caused quite a stir — because the asking price is almost $10 million. The painting has ties to Alaska, and to a now-closed Palmer antique shop with a Bob Ross reputation. Copyright 2023 KTUU. All rights reserved.