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Title: Types of canoes on Puget Sound
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Waterman, T. T. (Thomas Talbot), b. 1885 Coffin, Geraldine
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America Canoes and canoeing
Publisher: New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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journeys with household possessions - AND MONOGRAPHS 18 PUGET SOUND CANOES in quiet waters. In a storm it is not particularly safe. C—The ^Trolling Canoe (sdAxwcL) This craft has a very narrow hull, and the bow has more lift than in the preceding model.^^ Specimens of this type are usually relatively small, designed to carry only two or three men. This was the vessel used for hunting, for harpooning porpoise and otter, and in trolling for fish. The model exhibits some elegance of design. We may perhaps follow Boas in calling this craft the fishing or trolling canoe. A very large canoe of this model was called sdAxwiIus, For hunting the porpoise a very swift canoe was needed, for the animal was alert, and hard to harpoon. Boas gives a complete account of the pursuit, as carried on by the Kwakiutl. The term for porpoise-hunting on Puget sound is casah. The canoe intended for this purpose was called casahhwlL, It was of the type being discussed, but a fine, ^clear model and had to be fast. INDIAN NOTES
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g: D o < o ^ o S DC \Z Q- .S Z C — c k i O -5 ^ z -^ C ^rt J5 ^^ Ph of -J xt -J . F- ^ Ll q: o CE SHOVEL-NOSECANOE 19 ! D,—The ^Shovel-xose Canoe (JLai) This type of canoe is called the shovel-nose because it is cut off square at bow and stern and the hull scoops forward like a shovel. The Songish visited by Boas have the same term, trial, but the model pictured by Boas has a configuration somewhat different in certain details from the Puget Sound specimens seen. On the sound, the boat is hewn from one piece, while the Songishare said to add on the flattened end in the form of a separate plank. In spite of its shape the shovel-nose is in appearance anything but clumsy. It is excellently designed for a special purpose. A man may stand at the tip-end of bow or stern, and push with a pole, in shallow water. Thepeople also who live up the rivers depend on this type of ca

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