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A Grave Monument prob- 
ably signifying that the de- 
ceased ‘‘potlatched” many 
canoe loads of property 
The Chinook is another seaworthy and 
extensively used type. The Nootka of Cape 
Flattery and western Vancouver Island use 
it for whale hunting and launch it skillfully 
through the tremendous breakers constantly 
washing their coastline. They use a racing 
canoe also, somewhat similar in shape but 
long and narrow. 
A river type rather smaller than the 
Chinook sea-going canoe is used by the 
Salish of Puget Sound and vicinity and also 
by the southern tribes of the Kwakiutl of 
northern Vancouver Island and the adjacent 
mainland. The prow which extends hori- 
zontally over the water has a deep notch 
in the end and meets the main part of the 
prow to form almost a right angle. A river 
canoe with spoon-shaped ends is found 
among the Bella Coola of the inlets of the 
northern Kwakiutl country, who are very 
skillful in navigating the swift rivers fed by 
melting glaciers. Such a canoe is usually 
poled, one man standing in the prow, another 
in the stern and poling on opposite sides. 
This type of river canoe is also used by the 
adjacent Kwakiutl tribes. The Salish In- 
dians of the west coast of Washington have 
a canoe very much like it for river naviga- 
tion but the prow and stern are like those 
of a scow. 
Decoration of the canoes with carved and 
painted animal figures characteristic of 
this general region is common, especially 
among those of the Haida and Chinook 
types, and the canoes are always cared for 
as valuable property. Paths are cleared in 
the rocks on the beach so that the canoes 
may be drawn up without injury, and some- 
times skidways are formed of cross poles 
weighted at the ends with stones. A canoe party was observed to impro- 
vise such a skidway when landing at a strange beach. The men jumped 
