Oceanspray is a deciduous spreading shrub with slender arching branches
These beautiful flowers have a faint sweet, sugary scent.

In addition to the beautiful large, white to cream, lilac-like flower plumes, Oceanspray has another interesting and useful feature. Its branches are straight, narrow and storng.

The American Indians used Oceanspray branches to make digging sticks, spears, harpoon shafts, bows, and arrows.

Some tribes such as the Saanich and Cowichan used the wood to make salmon-barbequing sticks, inner bark scrapers, halibut hooks, cattail mat needles, and more recently knitting needles.

Oceanspray pegs were used in construction log before the invention of metal nails.
From wnps.org:

Creambush oceanspray is called "the most widespread and possibly the most abundant flowering shrub" in coniferous forests of northeastern Washington and northern Idaho (from www.fs.fed.us)

In Oregon, oceanspray are primarily structurally diverse old-growth stands, containing long-lived canopy trees and a subcanopy of younger trees.(from www.fs.fed.us)