Artwork

305 items

Canoe Bowl
Artist Unknown (Kwakwaka'wakw)

$9,000.00

Raven Halibut Hook
Artist Unknown (Northern Coastal)

Indigenous artwork on the Pacific Northwest Coast often incorporates figures and animals that are...

Indigenous artwork on the Pacific Northwest Coast often incorporates figures and animals that are related to crest symbols. Crests have been passed down through families and have varying meanings depending on the context and association with a nation, clan, or family. The figures depicted in contemporary Northwest Coast Indigenous artwork also have varying meanings but there are some common characteristics from a range of sources, including oral histories and artist descriptions.Raven is one ...

$3,800.00

Alaska Basket
Artist Unknown (Tsimshian)

$1,600.00

Cedar Basket
Artist Unknown (Tsimshian)

$800.00

Tlingit Basket
Artist Unknown (Tlingit)

$1,600.00

Salish Basket
Artist Unknown (Salish) (Salish)

$1,500.00

Tlingit Basket
Artist Unknown (Tlingit)

$1,400.00

Burden Basket
Artist Unknown (Klikitat)

c. 1880To view a similar style Klickitat (Klikitat) burden basket that is housed in the permanent...

c. 1880To view a similar style Klickitat (Klikitat) burden basket that is housed in the permanent collection of the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, click here.

$800.00

Cedar Bark Basket
Artist Unknown (Salish) (Salish)

c. 1925

c. 1925

$650.00

Salish Basket
Artist Unknown (Salish)

Traditionally an art practiced only by women, in the past baskets were made for a wide variety of...

Traditionally an art practiced only by women, in the past baskets were made for a wide variety of domestic uses associated with the gathering, storing and cooking of different foods. Similar weaving techniques were also used to make cradles and hats for everyday and ceremonial uses.Most basketry is traditionally woven from long, slender and pliant rootlets of cedar and sometimes spruce, although various grasses are used in some regions. A sharply pointed bone awl is used to split the rootlet ...

$1,800.00

Thompson River Knob Top Basket
Artist Unknown (Salish)

c. 1920

c. 1920

$3,500.00

Rectangular Salish Lidded Basket
Artist Unknown (Salish)

Traditionally an art practiced only by women, in the past baskets were made for a wide variety of...

Traditionally an art practiced only by women, in the past baskets were made for a wide variety of domestic uses associated with the gathering, storing and cooking of different foods. Similar weaving techniques were also used to make cradles and hats for everyday and ceremonial uses.Most basketry is traditionally woven from long, slender and pliant rootlets of cedar and sometimes spruce, although various grasses are used in some regions. A sharply pointed bone awl is used to split the rootlet ...

$1,400.00

Salmon Trout Head II
Robert Davidson (Haida)

2013 Edition /20 Indigenous artwork on the Pacific Northwest Coast often incorporates figures and...

2013 Edition /20 Indigenous artwork on the Pacific Northwest Coast often incorporates figures and animals that are related to crest symbols. Crests have been passed down through families and have varying meanings depending on the context and association with a nation, clan, or family. The figures depicted in contemporary Northwest Coast Indigenous artwork also have varying meanings but there are some common characteristics from a range of sources, including oral histories and artist descripti...

$11,000.00

Salmon Trout Head II
Robert Davidson (Haida)

Edition /5 The Salmon trout head is a figure used in Northwest Coast First Nations art in the jo...

Edition /5 The Salmon trout head is a figure used in Northwest Coast First Nations art in the joints of a design or as the frame for an eye. The granite base is 29" wide.   Indigenous artwork on the Pacific Northwest Coast often incorporates figures and animals that are related to crest symbols. Crests have been passed down through families and have varying meanings depending on the context and association with a nation, clan, or family. The figures depicted in contemporary Northwest Coast I...

$135,000.00

Welcome Frog Aluminum Gate
Don Yeomans (Haida)

To celebrate our 20th anniversary we approached Don Yeomans to make two special pieces for the ga...

To celebrate our 20th anniversary we approached Don Yeomans to make two special pieces for the gallery. The first was the design for the gallery's red aluminum gate, and the second was for a commemorative bronze edition. For both pieces, Don and Doug chose a frog design. For the door, Don said that he always has liked the friendly look of a frog and sees it as a welcoming figure. For the Bronze, Doug liked the association of Frogs with good luck, which appears in many cultures. On the opening...

Dzonokwa Moon Mask
Stan Hunt (Kwakwaka'wakw)

Edition 1/12

Edition 1/12

$11,000.00

Shore to Shore
Luke Marston (Salish)

Edition 3/12Measurements do not include base.This cast edition of 12 is a portion of Marston's br...

Edition 3/12Measurements do not include base.This cast edition of 12 is a portion of Marston's bronze installation in Stanley Park which stands at the site of the artist's family’s ancestral village site X̲wáýx̲way and commemorates the history of his ancestors, Portuguese Joe and his first and second Salish wives, Khaltinaht and Kwatleemaat. Marston is the great-great-grandson of Portuguese Joe and Kwatleemaat.

$17,000.00

Mighty Fir Vase
Rod Smith (Kwakwaka'wakw)

$1,400.00

Embryonic Eagle
Robert Mills (Tlingit)

"Eagle understands the importance of perpetuating growth by staying fluid, evolving, shifting, an...

"Eagle understands the importance of perpetuating growth by staying fluid, evolving, shifting, and morphing consciousness; continually producing a better version of himself." - Robert Mills

$8,500.00