Steinbrueck Native Gallery, Seattle

What to buy here: Native American Arts.

Seattle’s Steinbrueck Gallery is dedicated to enhancing the cultural experience and understanding of the art and heritage of the Northwest Coast First Nations People. Items like the Native Pacific Northwest Spirit Masks and wall hangings are excellent representatives of this rich culture.

Northwest Coast Native art has always had the ability to fascinate viewers from the first explorers to present day collectors. These highly detailed and imaginative Northwest Indian designs are renowned for their sophistication and complexity and their simple traditional elements. Northwest Coast Indian art has become one of the most sought after modern-day art forms in the world.

Northwest Coast native art makes use of local cedar for masks, monumental art, wood carving, bentwood boxes and baskets. Colorful masks, totem poles and house posts have become symbolic of the Northwest Coast and tell stories of a rich, ancient native culture. There are a great number of small, packable items and gifts in the gallery – all made by Seattle First Nations People. Artworks include items ranging from hand woven Yupik Grass baskets to stone sculptures and Native Pacific Spirit Masks varying in cost from $5 to $10,000 and up. Larger items can be shipped anywhere in the world.

The gallery is open 7-days a week; winter hours are 10:30- 5:00 and Sundays 12:00- 4:00 and summer hours are 10:30- 6:00 pm and Sundays 12:00 -6:00 pm.