SUQUAMISH — The Suquamish Museum presents a new exhibit from the Burke Museum, “Salish Bounty: Traditional Native American Foods of Puget Sound,” Oct. 25 to Dec. 31.

Focusing on the revival of traditional Native foods, “Salish Bounty” is co-curated by Burke Museum archaeologists and Coast Salish advisers.

“Salish Bounty”— comprised of historic photo images, map, and informative text printed on free-standing banners — reminds the viewer that food isn’t solitary; cooking and eating are things we do with other people and express our cultural history and values.

The exhibit also includes a 4-minute audiovisual DVD, offering archaeological insight into Coast Salish food resources spanning thousands of years along the Duwamish River.

Knowledge of Coast Salish cuisine has been passed down from the elders and supplemented by archaeological and historical research. More than 280 kinds of plants and animals have been identified as ingredients in this cuisine.

Contemporary Coast Salish cooks incorporate both traditional and newly introduced ingredients, sharing traditions to create healthy alternatives for families and communities still struggling with loss of lands and waters, drastically changed lifestyles, and imposed industrial foods.

“Salish Bounty” provides a local perspective on a myriad of 21st century food issues and how, as in many places around the world, the revival of Coast Salish food traditions embodies the reestablishment of more healthful and sustainable practices that honor land and community.

“The exhibit helps illustrate how important understanding food gathering and preparation is as a cultural resource,” museum director Janet Smoak said. “Gathering, preparing and consuming food is a universal way to examine cultural interaction among people and a people’s interaction with the environment around them.”

Photographs of Suquamish gathering and preparing food will augment the exhibit panels to help connect the activities described in “Salish Bounty” to Suquamish Tribal experience.