Kallispellem canoe

[< Kallispel (Indians)]

B.C.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a canoe made of the bark of western white pine, now largely confined to the Kootenay Valley.

Quotations

1866

Their canoes are of a most singular shape, not unlike the Kallispellem canoe shown in the illustration of Syniakwateen.

1876

The 'Kallispellem' canoes used by the Columbia River Kootanie and other inland Indians, are made of large sheets of bark. . . .