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Northwest
Coast Indians
Native American History
Brad Jones
Environment
The
The
Environment
Environment
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Environment
The
Environment
The flora consisted of a rich coniferous forest
that included Pine, Red/Yellow Cedar, Maple,
Service, Crabapple, and Redwood trees.
Averaged 100 inches of rainfall each year.
50 -55 degrees was the mean annual
temperature.
Coniferous is a needle leaved, scale leaved,
or cone-bearing trees and are for the most
part evergreen.
Subsistence
Fishing,
Tlingit Subsistence
Other
Tlingit Subsistence
The primary food source for the Tlingit was
the salmon.
The harvesting of the salmon was done in a
variety of ways. The most common being
the fishing weir or trap to restrict movement
upstream.
These traps allowed hunters to easily spear
a good amount of fish with little effort. It
did, however, required extensive
cooperation between the men fishing and
the women on the shore doing the cleaning.
Timber
Timber of all sorts, usually coniferous, was
plentiful in the Northwest Coast and was
used for all sorts of things such as wood
plank houses, totem poles, boats, tools and
weapons.
A wood plank house was made out of cedar
because of its straight grain, it had very
few knots and it was weather resistant.
Boats were made from cedar trees; they
would split them in half and dig them out
to make a canoe.
Various tools were made from wood to fish,
hunt, and warfare.
Totem Poles
Totem
Totem Poles
Animals
Totem Poles
Totem Poles
Potlatches
A
Potlatches
The
Potlatches
Different
potlatch.
Singing, dancing, with masks and
regalia that symbolized an important
animal.
Trading went on with the invited guests
such as dried foods, sugar, flour, and
Chilkat blankets.
Songs and dances were also traded.
Potlatch
Material Culture
The
Slavery
Slavery
Division of Labor