Types of canoes on Puget Sound . journeys with household posses- AND MONOGRAPHS 18 PUGET SOUND CANOES sions in quiet waters. In a storm it is notparticularly safe. C—The ^Trolling Canoe (sdAxwcL) This craft has a very narrow hull, andthe bow has more lift than in the precedingmodel.^^ Specimens of this type are usu-ally relatively small, designed to carry onlytwo or three men. This was the vesselused for hunting, for harpooning porpoiseand otter, and in trolling for fish. Themodel exhibits some elegance of may perhaps follow Boas in calling thiscraft the fishing or trolling canoe. Av
Types of canoes on Puget Sound . journeys with household posses- AND MONOGRAPHS 18 PUGET SOUND CANOES sions in quiet waters. In a storm it is notparticularly safe. C—The ^Trolling Canoe (sdAxwcL) This craft has a very narrow hull, andthe bow has more lift than in the precedingmodel.^^ Specimens of this type are usu-ally relatively small, designed to carry onlytwo or three men. This was the vesselused for hunting, for harpooning porpoiseand otter, and in trolling for fish. Themodel exhibits some elegance of may perhaps follow Boas in calling thiscraft the fishing or trolling canoe. Averylarge canoe of this model was calledsdAxwiIus, For hunting the porpoise a veryswift canoe was needed, for the animal wasalert, and hard to harpoon. Boas gives acomplete account of the pursuit, as carriedon by the Kwakiutl. The term for por-poise-hunting on Puget sound is canoe intended for this purpose wascalled casahhwlL, It was of the type beingdiscussed, but a fine, ^clear model and hadto be fast. INDIAN NOTES.
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