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Ix-lon^ing to cither toast 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 flog, 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. Xewcombe (1909, p. 50) 

 gives a further account of the method of making yarn fnmi the liair, 

 which he says, was removed from the dried skin of the dog with 

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

 hair to loosen the roots. The wool was then made into loose threads 

 by rolling. Witli the introduction of Hudson's Hay Company 

 blankets this industry has ceased and 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 ha\e classed it with the Siberian anfl Eskimo dogs, l)ut 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 Luhans to confine 

 the animals to islands, is a trait shared l)y the Eskimo Dog. The 

 precaution was possibly taken in order to prevent crossing with otlier 

 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 ^luseum. 

 It is not clear, however, if it was from a dog of the breed under con- 

 sideration, and as no actual dimensions are given, the figures are not 

 comparable with other direct measurements. 



I am indebted to Mr. C. T. Currelly, C'lU'ator of the Royal On- 

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

 fig. 1) of the unique painting made at ^'ictoria, B. ('., in 1S4G, 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. Nearby 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 Ri\er, woven of dogs' 

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

 for braiding and ornament. 



