Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . bFig. 7. a. Large box for keeping blaiUvets. ft, Front of box 52 TSIMSHIAIS^ MYTHOLOGY [ETH. ANN. 31. Fig. 8. Food tray. It would seem that in olden times, practically all along the coast, theart of stone cliipping was not in use, while rubbed slate points and pecked and batteredstone hammers andstone niortars () were common. While the men pro-cme all the animalfood except shellfish,the women gatherberries and dig rootsand shellfish. On Queen Charlotte Islands, and perhaps also amongthe Ts
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . bFig. 7. a. Large box for keeping blaiUvets. ft, Front of box 52 TSIMSHIAIS^ MYTHOLOGY [ETH. ANN. 31. Fig. 8. Food tray. It would seem that in olden times, practically all along the coast, theart of stone cliipping was not in use, while rubbed slate points and pecked and batteredstone hammers andstone niortars () were common. While the men pro-cme all the animalfood except shellfish,the women gatherberries and dig rootsand shellfish. On Queen Charlotte Islands, and perhaps also amongthe Tsimsliian, tobacco was raised in okhni times in gardens cleared near the \-illages. The tobaccowas not smoked, but chewedmixed with calcined shells. In olden times the dress of theTsimshian consisted of a breech-clout, oYcr which was worn ablanket of fur or of dressed front edges of blankets m«deof dressed skins were painted(fig. 15). Dressed skin was alsoembroidered with porcupinequills (figs. 16, 18), aUhoughthis art was not as prominent among the coast tribes as it wasamong the Indians t)f the interior. Wealthy people used expensive
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