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Yukie Adams was born in
Hokkaido
,
Japan
. In 1984 she married Henry Adams (Alaskan Tlingit). Since Yukie married into an Alaskan Tlingit family and became a part of the Tlingit culture, she made a study of the native arts of the
Northwest
Coast
and began creating designs for paintings, serigraphs, prints & drums. After she lost her husband she started to create wood carvings and mixed media. The combination of modernism and traditionalism is a unique identity of her works.
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