Tulalip Tribes' Hibulb Cultural Center Features New Coast Salish Canoes Exhibit

The Tulalip Tribes' Hibulb Cultural Center features a new special exhibit, A Journey with our Ancestors: Coast Salish Canoes, which opened on June 28 and will be on display through June 2015.  The exhibit highlights the importance of canoes to the Coast Salish people and their way of life before the arrival of white settlers.

Visitors earn about different types of canoes and how they were carved, Salish canoe travel routes throughout Puget Sound, notable canoe carvers, and traditional canoe-based gatherings ranging from canoe races to festivals and journeys. The interactive exhibit features over 70 items, including a large canoe visitors can sit in and videos of canoe carving. A historical timeline shows the history of canoes from pre-contact with whites to today.

Opened 2011, the Hibulb Cultural Center is a 23,000 square-foot cultural center designed to preserve and interpret the history, traditional cultural values and spiritual beliefs of the Tulalip Tribes (Snohomish, Snoqualmie, Skykomish and other Coast Salish tribes signatory to the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliot). Its permanent main exhibit showcases the traditional hunting, fishing and gathering lifestyles of the Tulalip Tribes with interactive displays, murals, artifacts, story poles, videos/films. There is an extensive collection of historical and archeological artifacts: baskets, stone work and tools, totems and other carvings, plus a traditional cedar long house where visitors watch a video on Coast Salish heritage narrated by tribal elders telling their stories.

The Hibulb Cultural Centercontains fully certified collections, making it the only tribal facility so certified by the state of Washington. It is located on the Tulalip Reservation just north of Everett, WA and is easily accessible from Interstate 5.

Tulalip Tribes' Hibulb Cultural Center
6410 - 23rd Avenue NE
Tulalip, WA 98271

Phone: 360-716-2635

For more information, visitor hours and directions, visit:

http://www.hibulbculturalcenter.org/Exhibits/Coast-Salish-Canoes/