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sturgeon-nosed canoe
B.C.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a type of bark canoe formerly associated with the Kootenay Indians.
See: canoe ((n.))(def. 1)
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1808
[The men described it ["a small canoe, narrow at both ends"], un cant puit au bec d'Eturgeons [which] could carry no more than two at a time.]
1932
Some of them [Chilcotin] pointed the ends of their bark canoes to correspond with the "sturgeon-nosed" canoes of the Interior Salish and Kootenay. . . .
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