Peter Demientieff is an Eskimo who specializes in jewelry, masks, and wood carvings and bone carvings. He also does scrimshaw and reverse scrimshaw pieces on ivory and baleen (whale bone).

He graduated from Kodiak High School in 1979 and began carving in 1986 when he moved to Anchorage, where he makes his home today.  He signs his work "Pelo," a nickname given to him as a baby.