Summer Moon Scriver, the photographer of the book “Hands at Work,” a display of black-and-white photographs and oral history profiles, will be at the Orcas Island Historical Museum on Saturday, Feb. 7 at 1 p.m. to open the exhibit of the same name.

Inspired by Scriver and Iris Granville’s recently published book, the Orcas Museum exhibit will include examples of work and working tools from past and present Orcas Islanders who created a lasting legacy with their hands.

“When people who work with their hands describe how and why they use techniques and materials now rapidly being replaced by machines and synthetics, they use the vocabulary of the spirit,” said Micki Ryan, director of the museum.

“They talk of living in their hands; of the need to touch raw materials, get their hands dirty, strain their muscles, and use their body to create. For them, the materials they use are alive and responsive; they learn through their hands and through them connect to another time.

“All islanders once worked with their hands. The things they created and crafted were their livelihood, and still bear the stamp of the individual. As machines replaced their handwork and the jobs that needed their hands became obsolete, the objects became a community legacy preserved and exhibited by the museum.”

The opportunity to meet the photographer will be in the museum’s heated Barfoot-Hodde entrance corridor and Margaret Philbrick research center. The exhibit will be open Wednesday through Saturdays from 1 to 4 p.m. through March 21. The book “Hands at Work” and notecards bearing images from the book will be available in the museum store.