Identifier: handbooktoethnog00brit (find matches)
Title: Handbook to the ethnographical collections
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945
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Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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the Haida ; some ofthese are very large, carryingup to thirty-six men. In thenoi-th the bottom is rounded,and the stern-jjost projectsbackward ; further south thebottom is flat and the stern-post perpendicular. Barkcanoes, sharply j)ointed eitherend, are used by the Ku-tenai. Food consists principallyof fish and berries, the formerbeing dried and stored;game, wild-fowl, birds eggs,potatoes, certain kinds ofbark, sea-weed, are alsoeaten, oil procured from fishor blubber being the uni-versal condiment. Fishing,therefore, is the principalpursuit of the men, and theappliances in use are ex-tremely varied. Hooks ofwood and bone (fig. 237),lines of spruce or cedar-bark,kelp, or whalebone, gigs,gaffs, harpoons, spears, rakesand nets are used, and weirsare built. Sea-otters are har-pooned and clubbed. Deerare driven into nets or de-coyed with calls; birds arenetted, or knocked over withclubs at night when dazzledby the torches of the hunters. The weaving of blankets(PI. I) is an important in-
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Fh:. 2:JS.—Knives IVoni ( he NW. const of Aiuerifji. a. liun inlaii Willi CdplxT. b. Coppei-. . 2 260 AMERICA dustry, and is performed by women. Copper was worked to asmall extent in early days, and metal generally, as soon as ironwas obtained from the whites, was worked with groat skill, asshown by the magnificent knives made by the Haida from dis-carded files obtained at the timber stations (fig. 238). In olddays tools were principally of jadeite or other hard stone (figs.232, 233). Baskets of fine quality, boxes of wood and bark forstorage, si)oons of horn and wood, and wooden dishes (fig. 239),Avere made in great quantity, and the last three were oftencovered with admirably executed carvings. In carving, as inmost crafts, the Haida are the most proficient, and their carvingsare frequently inlaid with abalone shell ; the i)ipes carved fromshale are particularly Avorthy of mention (fig. 240). The art ofthis region is quite peculiar, and consists chiefly in the repe-tition of anima

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