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hold tools and carried on all the carpentry, a very important industry 
on the Pacific coast where the Indians made not only wooden houses 
and wooden canoes, but wooden dishes and ladles that supplied the 
place of crockery, and wooden chests for cooking and for storing 
everything from fish oil to dance-paraphernalia. The wife brought in 
the game from the hunting field and the firewood from the forest or 
beach. She gathered the berries and the shell-fish, dressed and cooked 
the meat, tanned the skins and made them into clothing, wove the 
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Coast Salish woman weaving; a blanket from the wool of the wild Mountain goat, 
(Photo hy llarla)! I. Smith.) 
blankets of mountain-goats’ wool, the baskets of spruce root, the bags 
of cedar bark or basswood, and the mats of cedar bark or rushes; 
and in eastern Canada she fashioned the clay pots and birch-bark 
vessels that served as cooking utensils. Everything that needed sew- 
ing fell to her share, from the skin tipi to the birch-bark covering of 
the canoe. The plains’ Indian never dreamed of helping his wife to 
set up the big skin tipi, any more than the ordinary native dreamed 
