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Boarding the canoe

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Hesquiat Erik Loyer
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Clayoquot Erik Loyer
Contents of this path:
1. Berry-picker - Clayoquot
2. Whale ceremonial - Clayoquot
3. Boarding the canoe
4. Clayoquot girl
5. Canoeing on Clayoquot Sound
6. Ceremonial bathing
7. Clayoquot type
8. Into the shadow - Clayoquot
9. Fish spearing - Clayoquot The fisherman is taking flounders and other flatfish, which lie half-covered in the sand. At certain seasons, when the water is turbid by reason of the presence of excessive marine growth, objects on the bottom of a quiet bay can be discerned at a surprising depth. It is frequently assumed that the prows of North Coast canoes are carved in imitation of a dog's head, but the natives deny any intentional resemblance. The notch in the top of the prow, dividing it into two sections suggestive of an animal's ears, is simply a rest for the shaft of a spear or harpoon.
10. Whaler - Clayoquot
11. On Clayoquot Sound
12. A Clayoquot maiden
13. Costume of a woman shaman - Clayoquot
14. Woman shaman looking for clairvoyant visions - Clayoquot
15. Clayoquot woman in cedar-bark hat
16. A Clayoquot woman
List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Eleven Erik Loyer
Contents of this path:
1. Bowman
2. On the shores at Nootka
3. Hesquiat root digger
4. Berry-picker - Clayoquot
5. Seaweed gatherer
6. Whale ceremonial - Clayoquot
7. Boarding the canoe
8. Clayoquot girl
9. Canoeing on Clayoquot Sound
10. Nootka method of spearing
11. Oldest man of Nootka
12. Ceremonial bathing
13. Hesquiat woman
14. Clayoquot type
15. Hesquiat maiden
16. Into the shadow - Clayoquot
17. Nootka woman wearing cedar-bark blanket
18. Whaler
19. Bark gatherer
20. Nootka woman
21. Makah maiden
22. At Nootka
23. Waiting for the canoe
24. Haiyahl - Nootka
25. Shores of Nootka Sound
26. Nootka man
27. On the west coast of Vancouver Island
28. Fish spearing - Clayoquot The fisherman is taking flounders and other flatfish, which lie half-covered in the sand. At certain seasons, when the water is turbid by reason of the presence of excessive marine growth, objects on the bottom of a quiet bay can be discerned at a surprising depth. It is frequently assumed that the prows of North Coast canoes are carved in imitation of a dog's head, but the natives deny any intentional resemblance. The notch in the top of the prow, dividing it into two sections suggestive of an animal's ears, is simply a rest for the shaft of a spear or harpoon.
29. Return of halibut fishers
30. Whaler - Clayoquot
31. Whaler - Makah
32. Captured whale
33. Haida chief's tomb at Yan
34. Haida of Massett
35. Haida of Kung
36. Haida slate carvings
"Primitive" Erik Loyer
Contents of this path:
1. Vanishing race - Navaho
2. Scout - Apache
3. Jicarilla women
4. Son of the desert - Navaho
5. Ogalala woman
6. Kutenai camp
7. Rush gatherer - Kutenai
8. Primitive Quinault
9. Kwakiutl house-frame The two long beams in the middle are twin ridge-timbers, which are supported in the rear, as in the front, by a transverse beam resting on two uprights. At the extreme right and left are the eaves-timbers. The longitudinal and circular flutes of the columns are laboriously produced by means of a small hand-adze of primitive form. This frame is at the village Memkumlis. Another view is given in the illustration facing page 36. Kwakiutl houses are discussed on page 6.
10. Rounding into port - Qagyhl The primitive Kwakiutl sail for canvas was a sheet of cedar-bark matting, and on catamarans a large, square section of thin boards was propped up against the wind. Canvas is now used. The painting on the canoe at the left represents "sisiutl", the mythical double-headed serpent. The carved figure-heads of the middle canoe and the one on the right are respectively an eagle and a bear. The bear canoe is further embellished with highly conventionalized paintings of the head, flipper and tail of a whale.
11. On the shores at Nootka
12. Boarding the canoe
13. Oldest man of Nootka
14. Bark gatherer
15. Primitive style of hairdressing
16. A Klamath
17. Woman's primitive dress - Tolowa
18. Hupa woman in primitive costume
19. Diegueño home
20. Primitive artist - Paviotso
21. Primitive Apache home
22. Primitive Mohave
23. Primitive transportation - Mohave
24. Primitive dress - Quinault
25. A primitive camp
26. Primitive Chemehuevi dwelling