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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ii . -j . 1 :. I ;^ 1 .!:. i (. 1 old house, llakla, Queen Charlotte Island. The pole is now in the British Museum.) and painting, especially on ceremonial occasions, is universal.The tribes live by hunting and fishing and the collection of agreat variety of wild vegetable produce ; for these jjurposes theyscatter over the country in the summer, living in temi^orarycamps at the hunting and fishing grounds. For tlie winter, per-manent and very solid dwelling-liouses, rectanguhir in shape, arel>uilt of massive beams and planks, and usually allord slielter toseveral families : those of the llaida an; i)aiticulaily well con-structed. Pile dwellings arc found locally, but the most charac- E. 8 258 AMERICA
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Fig. 237—Fishhooks from the NW. coast of America. 1 is tipped witha birds claw, the rest liave Imnc points ; the shank of 6 is of stone, tlie restof wood. 8 is furnished witli a whale-bone snood. 3 and 4 are for halibut ;2 and 5 are gigs for snatching fish. NORTH AMERICA 259 teristic feature of the dwell-ings of this region are thehuge totem posts erectedbefore the dwellings of Tlin-git, Haida and Tsimshian,carved with the family crestsof the owner (figs. 17, 236). Good canoes are made ofwood by all these tribes, thebest by 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 b

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