A classic-style Coast Salish blanket fragment, which includes a mixture of goat wool and woolly dog wool in the warp (vertical strands) and weft (horizontal strands). Accessioned 1881.

Thanks to an exhibit opening Friday at the Seattle Art Museum, the public silence of the Coast Salish in the realm of art is over. "S'abadeb -- The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists" was ...

Long gone from existence, the Coast Salish Woolly Dog is brought back to life in the pages of a new book: The Teachings of Mutton: A Coast Salish Woolly Dog. Rich with stories from Musqueam ...

Researchers, Coast Salish people analyze 160-year-old indigenous dog pelt in the Smithsonian’s collection Analysis conducted to pinpoint the origin and sudden disappearance of the culturally ...

For centuries, woolly dogs have been at the center of tribal life throughout the Coast Salish world. Since the 19th century, however, these dogs have been considered extinct. Today, a resurfaced ...

Ancient DNA from the pelt of a fluffy white dog named Mutton is revealing new details about the woolly dog, an extinct breed that was cared for and raised by the women of the Coast Salish tribal ...

Researchers from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History led a new analysis that sheds light on the ancestry and genetics of woolly dogs, a now extinct breed of dog that was a fixture of ...

Call me Coast Salish or poet. Call me a girl who loves Nick Cave, and night swimming, and ramen, and old Bikini Kill records. I no longer wish to be called resilient.

BOW — Coast Salish artist Jason LaClair visited Allen Elementary this week to speak with students about how Coast Salish art compares to other styles and to collaborate with the ...

As a queer Coast Salish woman, there is nothing wrong with me and I am allowed to embrace all of that and be proud of that. Northwest author Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe’s newest book is called ...