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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 372333, member: 55&quot;]I&#039;d agree; made within the last 10 years; could have been yesterday for that matter.&nbsp; There is indeed a healthy tourist industry in B.C. especially in Victoria and Vancouver, and you&#039;ll see &quot;flats&quot; like these in big Native outlets, and also in lots of small shops, pawn shops, souvenir outlets, and such.</p><p>Many are made by Coast Salish tribal members living in the area; many of these prefer to use more specific &quot;tribal&quot; names rather than the generic &quot;Coast Salish.&quot;</p><p>Musqueam and Squamish are two that are often seen.</p><p>The flats are often made from soft pine, stained in a darker color; pine is not a traditional native wood, but is readily available from retail sources and easy to carve.&nbsp; Better-quality flats might be red or yellow cedar, or alder.</p><p>I&#039;m not entirely sure of the wood on this one; could be alder, but more likely pine.&nbsp; The one in the Etsy listing is pine, I&#039;m pretty sure.</p><p>A lot of the &quot;flat&quot; makers have a pretty high production, sold in those shops, without getting much online recognition.&nbsp; They&#039;re not selling in the higher-echelon shops that would be posting online bios, for example.</p><p>It would not be uncommon to walk into one of the more touristy outlets to find several hundred small masks and flats on the wall; 10 by one artist, 10 by another, and so on, with prices from $25 to $200; with none of the names being particularly recognizable, except that they belong to families that one might have heard of.</p><p><br /></p><p>By contrast, a higher-end gallery might have several dozen sculptures of various sorts; all by names with major online presence; and priced from $5000 on up.....like a $25,000 Robert Davidson in one corner, a $20,000 Susan Point wall panel hanging behind it.</p><p>I&#039;ve yet to see one of those in a thrift shop, but hope springs eternal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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