. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Family or Transportation Canoes of the Northwest Coast. Fig. 171, Canoe. The upper figure in tlie plate illustrates the general type ofSouth Coast Indian canoe, with its swan-like barbed j^row and straigiit,blunt, high stern. Tlie difference between this style and tliat foundamongst the North Coast Indians is fully discussed in the text. Kig. 173. Canoe (lower figure). General type of the North Coast Indian canoe withits projecting prow and stern, round counter, and fine lines. Report of National Museum, 1888.—Niblack. Pl
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Family or Transportation Canoes of the Northwest Coast. Fig. 171, Canoe. The upper figure in tlie plate illustrates the general type ofSouth Coast Indian canoe, with its swan-like barbed j^row and straigiit,blunt, high stern. Tlie difference between this style and tliat foundamongst the North Coast Indians is fully discussed in the text. Kig. 173. Canoe (lower figure). General type of the North Coast Indian canoe withits projecting prow and stern, round counter, and fine lines. Report of National Museum, 1888.—Niblack. Plate THE INDIANS OF THE NOETHWEST COAST. 297 Canoe making.—The primitive tools used in canoe construction areso simple as to excite our surprise. The principal and almost only oneused is the adze of some pattern or other shown in Plate xxiii, , 93, and 94. The logs for the purpose are usually gotten out in thesummer season and rough hewn to somewhat the shape of the canoe inodd hours about the summer camp—the finishing work being left untilwinter. The trees are generally selected near some watercourse andfelled in such a direction as to admit of launching them into tide log is trimmed where felled to rough dimensions, launched, andtowed to summer camp, where the preliminary work is done. Often bycombined labor numerous logs are gotten out in this way at one time,made into a raft, and by means of sweeps and sails and by dint ofworking the tides brought to the village or to the neighborhood of thecamps. Good trees for canoe purposes are sufficiently rare to make theirsel
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