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skillful builders of canoes, enormous dugouts from cedar trees. Al- 
though no canoe was being built while I was there, one six fathoms long 
had been made the previous winter. ‘The Indians were still interested in 
it and manifested considerable pride in showing their work. Urged on 
by their pride, they carefully explained details and in many cases splen- 
didly illustrated them, as a result of which I gained dozens of pencil 
compositions and many local color notes, so that the Haida painting will 
show graphically the Indians at work carving and steaming the canoe in 
the midst of characteristic surroundings. 
From Prince Rupert, our headquarters in the north, we traveled to 

CHINOOK CANOE, NEAR VICTORIA 
The Indian is excavating the interior with an adze 
Nass River. On our way we were informed that a native artist lived at 
Georgetown. ‘lo learn that a picture painter, not a mere decorator, 
existed among these serious-minded peoples who are accustomed to 
make only abstract designs stimulated my interest. Late in the after- 
noon we moored beside a raft of logs and had to dance our way for 
many yards over the moving tree trunks to reach the shore. We finally 
reached the shack of the artist and, watched by a large and curious 
family, were ushered into his “studio.”’ He exhibited odd bits of broken 
glass which when held toward the light showed strange drawings in color, 
