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Coast Salish art is an art unique to the Pacific Northwest Coast among the Coast Salish peoples. Coast Salish are peoples from the Pacific Northwest Coast made up of many different languages and cultural characteristics.
The Salish Sea region of the Northwest coast has produced ancient pieces of art appearing by 4500 BP that feature various Salish styles recognizable in more recent historical works. A seated human feature bowl was used in a female puberty ritual in Secwépemc territory; it was believed to aid women in giving birth.
Susan Point RCA (born 1952 [1]) is a Musqueam Coast Salish artist from Canada, who works in the Coast Salish tradition. [2] Her sculpture, prints [3] and public art [4] works include pieces installed at the Vancouver International Airport, the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C., Stanley Park in Vancouver, the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, the Penn Museum in Philadelphia ...
Taking inspiration from the annual Coast Salish Canoe Journeys, the work depicts a series of paddles being raised as canoers ask permission to come ashore. [4] Fraser River Families highlights the importance of salmon to Musqueam, and explores familial links between Musqueam communities and fishing practices ranging from UBC campus to Richmond ...
Northwest Coast art is the term commonly applied to a style of art created primarily by artists from Tlingit, Haida, Heiltsuk, Nuxalk, Tsimshian, Kwakwaka'wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth and other First Nations and Native American tribes of the Northwest Coast of North America, from pre-European-contact times up to the present.
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The Salish (or Salishan) people are in four major groups: Bella Coola (Nuxalk), Coast Salish, Interior Salish, and Tsamosan, who each speak one of the Salishan languages. The Tsamosan group is usually considered a subset of the broader Coast Salish peoples. Among the four major groups of the Salish people, there are twenty-three documented ...
Coast Salish art (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Coast Salish art and artifacts" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.