BLYN – Inside this space, you hear voices. They belong to the first people of the North Olympic Peninsula.
“I’ve had people cry, when they find something they’ve been looking for. They walk in, and there it is,” said Wendy Humphries, a saleswoman and guide at the Northwest Native Expressions gallery.
The gallery, on the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal Center campus at 1033 Old Blyn Highway, celebrates Coast Salish art, from traditional potlatch rattles and dance paddles to masks, beaded birds and cedar salmon.
Humphries sees many visitors, exhausted by air and car travel, experiencing original Native American art for the first time.
“People come out here,” she said, “and fall in love.”