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"As above So Below", Mukilteo Light Rail Station, Sound Transit, 2001-current Mukilteo was once the site of a very different commute. Historic photos show the founders of Mukilteo on the beach with several canoes of the Native Americans that visited the shores of "little neck" during their travels on water. The most common canoe was the 25' "family canoe", the Nootkan Salish canoe used throughout the Northwest. The model displays a casting of black terrazzo (the canoes were painted black), inlaid with shell and fish bones, copper, and abalone. As if a fossil from a lost time (only 100 years ago), and a very different travel, the terrazzo sculpture will remind commuters of their connection to the sea, and to the travel in time, from the underworld below to the spirit world above.