Northwest Coast Art

Is this how it’s going to be?  documenting “stuff” around here?… I don’t think so…now I can go about with a walking stick/cane for a bit, after the PT visit today.  Yea!    
But I think I’ll blip these little treasures  today anyway ….. The bentwood boxes were painted by Steve Brown, a professor at the UW and Native expert. (but not Native himself)  …we bought them at the Burke Museum long ago… now they are very collectable.   (Im glad our burgler didn’t take any art, only silver!..no word about that of course...in some pawn shop I suspect.) ….)the left box  is our local Coast Salish Style, the right, Haida.  Books are written about the style differences…and I took many courses at the UW- fascinating to learn about the materials and designs.,     The cedar baskets are from Vancouver Island…Nootka tribe.  Two we got when we were sailing around the island in little indigenous shops, one very remote.   but there was a road there...So I asked where it went and I was told "anywhere you want to go!" n  Not sure where the 3rd one came from.   You can see the whaling canoe and the whales --a big part of their lives.  The print a friend gave me years ago…we called it “waggly tongue”  but the name the artist writes is “Story Teller.”