The Native Races (Vol. 1-5). Hubert Howe Bancroft

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Название The Native Races (Vol. 1-5)
Автор произведения Hubert Howe Bancroft
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or beasts, the head on the bow and the tail on the stern. The inside is painted red; the outside, slightly burned, is rubbed smooth and black, and for the whale fishery is ornamented along the gunwales with a row of small shells or seal-teeth, but for purposes of war it is painted with figures in white. Paddles are neatly made of hard wood, about five and a half feet long with a leaf-shaped blade of two feet, sharp at the end, and used as a weapon in canoe-fighting. A cross-piece is sometimes added to the handle like the top of a crutch.293

      PROPERTY OF THE NOOTKAS.

      NOOTKA ART AND GOVERNMENT.

      NOOTKA SLAVERY AND MARRIAGE.

      THE NOOTKA FAMILY.