DCHP-3

sprucebark canoe

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a kind of canoe made by the Indians of the western mountains.

Quotations

1876
[The ' Kallispellem ' canoes used by the Columbia River Kootanie and other inland Indians, are made of large sheets of bark, stripped from the spruce fir or cedar tree (Thuja gigantia).]
1928
The abandoned sprucebark canoe I reconditioned and launched upon the Mackenzie disintegrated and swamped within a hundred yards.
1957
He told me many tales of his people, of Father Morice . . . of the hunt, the autumn salmon hordes, the sprucebark canoes of his boyhood.