DCHP-3

Haida canoe

West Coast
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a sixty-foot dugout canoe, used by the Haida Indians for raids on the mainland.

Quotations

1869
We bought a large Hydah canoe for $50, and hired ten siwashes (nine Hydahs and one bog-will Indian), for $10 a month and board, to stop with us where we chose, and to go with us at least as far as their own villages.
1955
There is a specimen of a Haida canoe in the Natural History Museum in New York, sixty-four feet long and eight feet wide. . . .