Coast Salish First Nations Eagle carving was handcrafted from creamy old-growth yellow cedar and is unpainted. Zoom in to see the beautiful tight grain of the wood.  23.5 x 6 x 1, priced at $275. This artist is well known for simplicity of lines, contemporary lines, and for the quiet power in his motifs. The Eagle carving is uniquely vertical. The carving is super clean, and is expertly done.

The artist is a member of the Coast Salish First Nation. He comes from the large and worldwide known LaFortune family. He creates work with traditional Salish crests and motifs, but he is especially interested in experimenting with unconventional forms and unique symbols. He is primarily a wood carver, but his pieces are all recognizable for the very clean lines and elegant expression.

The artist and his father, also a renowned carver, have combined their creative carving talents to produce three welcoming signage totems that mark entrance into the Saanichton Village. Saanichton, in British Columbia, is on the southeastern tip of Vancouver Island. The project, a first in British Columbia, links the community boldly with the historical aspect of local First Nations. The project includes five Totems in total, one for each road into Saanichton Village, completed in 2015.

The Coast Salish peoples are a group of ethnically and linguistically related Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, living in the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon.

The Coast Salish are a large, loose grouping of many nations with numerous distinct cultures and languages. Territory claimed by Coast Salish peoples span from the northern limit of the Salish Sea on the inside of Vancouver Island and covers most of southern Vancouver Island, all of the Lower Mainland and most of Puget Sound and the Olympic Peninsula (except for territories of the Chemakum people).

Their traditional territories coincide with modern major metropolitan areas, namely Victoria, Vancouver, and Seattle. The Tillamook or Nehalem around Tillamook, Oregon are the southernmost of the Coast Salish peoples.

Coast Salish cultures differ considerably from those of their northern neighbors. They have a patrilineal and matrilineal kinship system, with inheritance and descent passed through the male and female line.

According to a 2012 estimate, the population of Coast Salish numbers at least 56,590 people, made of 28,406 Status Indians registered to Coast Salish bands in British Columbia, and 28,284 enrolled members of federally recognized tribes of Coast Salish in Washington State.