Unusual and intense vintage red cedar Wolf Dancer carving measures 17.5 x 5 and is priced at $345. Mother-of-Pearl eye inlay. The artist signed “J.M.” and we do not have detailed information beyond those initials about the carver. Coast Salish tribal affiliation is marked on the back as well.

The Coast Salish nation is an area that stretches vertically from the K’omoks First Nation in the middle of Vancouver Island’s east coast, down to the Columbia River in Washington State in the U.S., and over to the mainland of BC, including inlets of Puget Sound and the Gulf of Georgia.

In recent years there has been a resurgence of Coast Salish artwork. Artists have actively fought against decades of underrepresentation and seek to revive and share the unique features of the South Coast 2-dimensional style.

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