Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Types of Canoes on Puget Sound
The specimens on which this discussion is based were collected for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, in the immediate vicinity of Seattle. The native terms for the various models and for the parts of the canoes are in the Du wamish dialect of Salish. The sounds oc curring in this and the other Salish dialects spoken on the upper part of Puget sound are represented in the following tabulation.
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