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small fishing-boat snz'quatl and the Chinook boat d’/tqzs. The latter, 
however, is not an old style Lku/figeEn boat, but belongs to the Nootka. 
The snz/quatl is a long, narrow boat with slanting stern, similar in shape 
to a small Kwakiutl boat; its peculiarity is the bow as shown in fig. 5, 
Fria. 5. FIa. 6. 
The Cowitchin boat has a stern similar to that of the Kwakintl boat, fig. 6. 
It is called by the Lku/figen st?’ uwaitatl, i.e., boat with a square bow. 
The Kwakiutl boat is called pé’'ktlzntl or tc’d'dtlte. Besides the small 
Fic. 7.—Lku'figEn Fishing Canoe. 
boat, the Lku/igrn used the large fishing-boat called stz/tlzm or i’la'i, 
and the war-boat kuiné'itl. I have had models made of these boats; the 
former is shown in fig. 7,a lateral view of the latter in fig. 8. The 
Fic. 8.—Lku’figEen War Canoe, 
Bes 
square stern is peculiar to the Lku’figern fishing-boat. It seems that it 
was not made of one piece with the boat, but consisted of a board inserted 
into a groove, the joints being made water-tight by means of pitch. 
MANUFACTURES AND Foop. 
I do not intend to give a detailed report on these subjects, but confine 
myself to describing such manufactures and such methods of preparing 
food as I had occasion to observe. Blankets are woven of mountain-goat 
wool, dog-hair, and duck-down mixed with dog-hair. The downs are 
peeled, the quill being removed, after which the downs are mixed with 
dog-hair. A variety of dogs with long white hair was raised for this 
purpose ; it has been extinct forsome time. The hair which is to be spun 
is first prepared with pipe-clay (st’d’uwok').! A ball, about the size of a 
1 Dr. George M. Dawson obtained a specimen of this material from Indians in 
Burrard Inlet in 1875. It proved to be diatomaceous earth, not true pipe-clay. The 
material used by the Lku’/igeEn is found somewhere north-east of Victoria, the exact 
spot being unknown to me, 
