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Occasionally, Ms. Sahakian’s mother comes in and works as a beader.

Given museum treatment, the exhibition’s costumes can finally be appreciated up close as the remarkable, wearable sculptures they are: the Tudor-meets-Rihanna outfits of Henry VIII’s wives from “Six,” bedazzled with 18,810 studs; the elaborate roping and beading of corsets for “The Lion King”; Miodrag Guberinic’s Medusa for Heartbeat Opera, with its laser-cut snake vertebrae; the intricate bead work for “Aladdin,” which occupied the beader Polly Kinney every day for nearly six months.

Although McCleary is primarily a beader, she got her start sewing in high school.

Candace Branson, an Alutiiq dancer, said she learned how to bead from Leona Haakanson-Crow, an experienced beader who also participated in the workshop.

The event Nov. 7 is part of an intensive five-day workshop led by June Pardue, a master skin sewer and beader with family ties to the community of Old Harbor, according to an Alutiiq Museum news release.