Carrie Anvil-Kiana hails from the southwestern Alaska community of Bethel. She is the only daughter in a family of six children. Carrie works in the time honored tradition of skin sewing. She learned this art from her mother, Anna Anvil, and grandmother, Lucy Beaver. She began sewing as a young girl first making small items such as earrings, eskimo yo-yo's and graduated into making traditional clothing for her family. Her specialty is beaded sealskin slippers.