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belonging to either coast or inland Indians." He supposes it to be of 

 Japanese origin, recalling the long-haired Japanese Lap-dog, which 

 however, seems remote enough in other characters. Lord adds that 

 in the manufacture of rugs from the hair of this dog, the Indians often 

 added the wool of the Mountain Goat, or duck feathers, or wild hemp. 

 They dyed the hair as well. He obtained several of these blankets 

 along the coast for the British Museum. Newcombe (1909, p. 50) 

 gives a further account of the method of making yarn from the hair, 

 which he says, was remo\ed from the dried skin of the dog with 

 knives or pulled out after moistening the hide and "sweating" the 

 liair To loosen the roots. The wool was then made into loose threads 

 by rolling. V\h\\ the introduction of Hudson's Bay Company 

 blankets this industry has ceased aufl the dog was practically extinct 

 at the time of his writing. 



As to the origin or affinities of this breed, little can be said. Some 

 writers have classed it with the Siberian and Eskimo dogs, but it is 

 likely that it was a breed of the larger type of Indian dog. The dis- 

 inclination to take to water, made use of by the Indians to confine 

 the animals to islands, is a trait shared by the Eskimo Dog. The 

 precaution was possibly taken in order to prevent crossing with other 

 breeds of Indian Dogs. 



Windle and Humphreys (1890) in their table of cranial proportions 

 of Eskimo Dogs, include those of a Nootka Dog in the British Museum. 

 It is not clear, howe\er, if it ^\as from a dog of the breed under con- 

 sideration, and as no actual dimensions are gi\en, the figures are not 

 comparal^le with other direct measurements. 



I am indebted to Mr. ('. T. C'urrelly, Curator of the Royal On- 

 tario Museum of Archaeology at Toronto, for a photograph (Plate 4, 

 fig. 1) of the unique painting made at A'ictoria, B. C, in 1846, by 

 Paul Kane and now at that ^Museum. In the foreground is one of the 

 white woolly dogs in question, its apparently erect ears nearly hidden 

 in the long hair of the head. Xearl)y an Indian woman is weaving 

 a blanket, no doubt from yarn made of dogs' hair, a ball of which 

 another woman in the background is spinning. The use of dogs' 

 hair in making blankets is not confined to the Clallams. The ancient 

 Zunis appear to have made similar use of it; and Bannister Q869) 

 mentions an Indian blanket from Mackenzie River, woven of dogs' 

 hair. The natives of New Zealand regularly employed dogs' hair 

 for braiding and ornament. 



