My name is Jenna and I’m the creative hands behind Some Wear Wild.
I live and create in Palmer, Alaska.
I was born and raised in Homer on the Kenai Peninsula. For as long as I can remember, summers were spent working on fishing boats and calling the mountains of Kachemak Bay my playground. My family lived seasonally in the native villages of western Alaska, 2 hours flight from the road system, where my Dad was a village school teacher. Together we fished, hunted and joined my Dad’s winter trapline to live a subsistence lifestyle and make memories doing it.
My first Moose in 2009
My first Moose in 2009
My second moose in 2010
Deer Hunting in 2006
My dad handsewing me a beaver parka meant joining his trapline! Jenna at 2 with her first lynx.
My greatest champions.
After decades spent in the native villages of the lower Yukon River, my Dad now runs a business sourcing Moose antlers from the Yup’ik Alaskans in rural villages of western Alaska. His understanding of the the land and indigenous people of the Yukon-Delta has made it possible to efficiently operate out of such an isolated part of the state. His driving passion is to support families in the remotest areas with no industry by putting value on a renewable resource that costs them nothing. This partnership between him and the people of the Yukon has fueled his motivation to run business out of Alaska.
And now it fuels mine too.
I love taking the rugged and strong antlers found on Alaska’s hills and tundras and turning them into unique and thoughtfully crafted pieces.
Its only fitting that I add a touch of the wild to our wardrobes.
Antlers fall off every year! Here's a shed found underneath Cottonwood trees thrashed by bull Moose.
A day's work of shed antler hunting. Found by Yup'ik men on tundras surrounding Kotlik, Ak.
Gabe, one of my dad's Antler collectors on the lower Yukon River. He is holding a shed found on the tundras surrounding his village.
Antler hunter, Gabe with his shed collection in Kotlik, Ak.
Finding antler sheds is a family affair!
A very unique antler found on frozen tundra.
Sheds Upon Sheds Upon Sheds
Antlers get collected and taken to the village with the nearest airstrip for shipment into Anchorage via pallet.
Caribou sheds stored in a villagers front porch waiting for the "Antler Man" to come to town.
Making friends on the Yukon while buying antlers!
The Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Region, home to the Yup'ik Eskimos, a lowland delta the size of Kansas. The region's population of more than 23,000 (the largest Native population in Alaska) lives scattered among 56 villages ranging from 200 to 1,000 persons each.