Canoe Culture :: Ho’-KU-Melh

Subtitled War Canoes and the Gifts They Carry Forward, this expansive and multi-sensory exhibition showcases the Canoe Cultures project, which promotes the building of traditional Indigenous canoes through an apprenticeship program. Ho’-ku-melh is a Chinook word that means “to gather” and, yes, the exhibition gathers together many voices and much wisdom about Salish canoes through stories, poems, textiles, murals, illustrations, and photographs as well as actual canoes – old, new and as works-in-progress.