Musqueam or Xwemetskiwyam house posts with Coast Salish style design. The Musqueam Indian Band is a First Nations government in the Canadian province of British Columbia, and is the only Indian band whose reserve lies within

Coast Salish art is the term commonly applied to a style of art created primarily by artists of the Coast Salish, an indigenous peoples of British Columbia, Canada and Washington state, cultural and linguistical group. Coast Salish refers to a cultural or ethnographic designation of a subgroup of the First Nations or Native American cultures in British Columbia, The Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast are the Pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Pacific Northwest Coast, their descendants and many Ethnic groups British Columbia (ˌbrɪtɨʃ kəˈlʌmbiə ( BC) ( (la Colombie-Britannique C Washington ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. , from pre-European-contact up to contemporary times. The Coast Salish art form is sometimes distinguished apart of Northwest Coast art, but sometimes it does not. Northwest Coast art is the term commonly applied to a style of art created primarily by artists from Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Kwakwaka'wakw It is quite distinctly different from Northwest Coast art characterized by Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Kwakwaka'wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth art. Not to be confused with the Turkic Telengit people The Tlingit (ˈklɪŋkɪt in English also /-gɪt/ or Tlinkit /ˈtlɪŋkɪt/ which The Haida (19th C-early 20th C Indigenous nation of the west coast of North America. The Tsimshian ( Sm'algyax: Ts’msyan) /'sɪmʃiæn/ are an indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast. The Kwakwaka'wakw (also Kwakiutl) are an Indigenous nation numbering about 5500 who live in British Columbia on northern Vancouver Island The Nuu-chah-nulth (pronounced) (also formerly referred to as the Nootka, Nutka, Aht, Nuuchahnulth) are one of the Indigenous peoples It's different in form, style, and use of white space. The art form was used in spindle whorls, house posts, welcome figures, combs, bent wood boxes, canoes, and other cultural objects. Some contemporary Coast Salish artists are Susan Point, Chris Paul, and many others. It's currently undergoing a revival in the past 20 years.

See also

• Coast Salish
• Coast Salish languages
• Northwest Coast art

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Bibliography

• Steven C. Coast Salish refers to a cultural or ethnographic designation of a subgroup of the First Nations or Native American cultures in British Columbia, Coast Salish languages are a subgroup of the Salishan language family Northwest Coast art is the term commonly applied to a style of art created primarily by artists from Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Kwakwaka'wakw Brown, Rebecca Blanchard, and Nancy Davenport. Contemporary Coast Salish Art. University of Washington Press (August 2005). ISBN 978-0295984858.
• Point, Susan. Susan Point: Coast Salish artist. Douglas & McIntyre (November 2000). ISBN 978-0295980188.

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