Types of canoes on Puget Sound . ES or by Nootka from the west coast of Van-couver island; occasionally by people ofother tribes. These canoes were not usedby the Puget Sound people, and werelooked on with some curiosity. Their out-line is shown in fig. 1 (after Boas). POINTS OF INTEREST IN THE VARIOUSTYPES ^.—The ^War Canoe (aoixs) The Songish about Victoria, B. C, havethis model, which they call atqEsP- Its mostcharacteristic features, both there and here,are a prominent and lofty bow and consist, on Puget sound, of separatesections hewn out of cedar and fitted care-fully into th
Types of canoes on Puget Sound . ES or by Nootka from the west coast of Van-couver island; occasionally by people ofother tribes. These canoes were not usedby the Puget Sound people, and werelooked on with some curiosity. Their out-line is shown in fig. 1 (after Boas). POINTS OF INTEREST IN THE VARIOUSTYPES ^.—The ^War Canoe (aoixs) The Songish about Victoria, B. C, havethis model, which they call atqEsP- Its mostcharacteristic features, both there and here,are a prominent and lofty bow and consist, on Puget sound, of separatesections hewn out of cedar and fitted care-fully into their places on the hull. They arefastened there by pegs of cedar {sfAstAd,the word now applied to nails) and lashingsof twisted cedar withes (stidAgwAt) ^ and thejoint is watertight without being pitched(see Swan, 1868, for the method of fitting).Artistically, the shape of the prow stronglysuggests an animaFs head, and gives thecanoe (which is exquisite in design) an airof alertness, as though it were moving of its INDIAN NOTES. WAR CANOE 15 own accord. From the practical standpointthese elevated additions to the hull are de-signed to throw aside the seas. The nakedhull without these bow and stern pieceswould soon fill in rough water. The piecesseem so slender and inadequate that anobserver would doubt their effectiveness forsuch a practical end. The answer is thatin the course of generations they have beenreduced to the most slender proportionswhich will give the necessary protection,and they are wonderfully effective in aid-ing the actual navigation of the Indians and whites w^ho have followedthe sea tell us that this type of canoe shipsless water in a storm than any craft in theworld. If we are looking for a catchword,we may call this the ocean-going canoe. A number of other terms have been ap-plied to this class of vessel. A popularterm in the Northwest is the word Chin-ook. We find, for example, the Chinookwind, the Chinook jargon, and Chin-ook salmon. Chinook
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