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small fishing-boat snz/quatl and the Chinook boat d/tqgzs. The latter, however, is not an old style Lku/igeEn boat, but belongs to the Nootka. The snz'quatl is a long, narrow boat with slanting stern, similar in shape to a small Kwakiutl boat; its peculiarity is the bow as shown in fig. 5.

Fra. 5. FIG. 6.

The Cowitchin boat has a stern similar to that of the Kwakinutl boat, fig. 6. It is called by the Lku’/figen sti’uwaitatl, t.e., boat with a square bow. The Kwakiutl boat is called pé’k‘tlantl or tced'dtlte. Besides the small

Fic. 7.—Lku figEn Fishing Canoe.

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boat, the Lku’figrn used the large fishing-boat called stz'tlem or tla’i, and the war-boat kuiné'itl. I have had models made of these boats; the former is shown in fig. 7,a lateral view of the latter in fig. 8. The

Fig. 8.—Lku’/igEn War Canoe

square stern is peculiar to the Lku’figern fishing-boat. It seems that it was not made of one piece with the boat, but consisted of a board inserted into a groove, the joints being made water-tight by means of pitch.

MANUFACTURES AND Foon.

T do not intend to give a detailed report on these subjects, but confine myself to describing such manufactures and such methods of preparing food as I had occasion to observe. Blankets are woven of mountain-goat wool, dog-hair, and duck-down mixed with dog-hair. The downs are peeled, the quill being removed, after which the downs are mixed with dog-hair. A variety of dogs with long white hair was raised for this purpose ; it has been extinct forsome time. The hair which is to be spun is first prepared with pipe-clay (sfa’uok').' A ball, about the size of a

1 Dr. George M. Dawson obtained a specimen of this material from Indians in Burrard Inlet in 1875. It proved to be diatomaceous earth, not true pipe-clay. The material used by the Lku’igEn is found somewhere north-east of Victoria, the exact spot being unknown to me,