war party, Malecite, 71; traveling, 212; Iroquois, 214 



Waswanipi, Lake, Post (Hudson's Bay Company), 151 



water, Indian methods of boiling, 20 



weapons, for kayaks, 1 94, 2 1 1 



weather cloth, 183 



wedge, 38, 156 



Western Cree Indians, 132, 155; canoe, 72, 132-134, 155 



Wewenoc Indians, 88 



Weymouth, Captain George, 7 



whaleboat, 187 



whaling umiak, 187, 188 



Whitbourne, Captain Richard, 94 



White Fish People (Indian tribe), 107 



wide-bottom canoe, 54 



willow, 17 



Winnipeg, Lake, 132 



wood (for kayaks), 192, 200, 204 



wood bending, by hot water, 20; over a fire, 69 



wood splitting, 17, 18, 19 



woods canoe, 58, 65 



Woodstock, New Brunswick, 4, 75 



wulegessis, 72, 73, 77, 82, 90, 120, 121 



York boat, 220 



Yukon Indians, 190 



Yukon River canoe, 159; kayak-form, 164, 165, 166, 190 



242 



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