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Arborglyph
Carved face on a Calvert Island tree. Photo: Dan Leen. I’ve mentioned Dan Leen’s excellent web page before. When I was on Teredo N. with him I heard many excellent stories including how he came...
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Canoe Steaming
Carl and Joe Martin steam a canoe near Tofino. Click to play video. The Northwest Coast is rightly famous for the superb dugout canoes made by First Nations, a craft which continues to the present day....
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One Tree, Four Canoes
"Making 4 canoes from one cedar tree, Olympic Loop, Queets, Washington. Yesterday I posted on canoe steaming. In the process of preparing that, I ran across an eye-popping photograph, above....
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Making a stone tool, 1893
1893 flint-knapping description by Father Morice. Source: Canadiana.org Father Adrien-Gabriel Morice was a Catholic missionary working in the Skeena and Bulkley River areas of western British Columbia...
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In-SHUCK-ch Cedar Bark Stripping Gallery
Pulling a cedar bark strip. The scarred face will heal in a highly characteristic way. Source: In-SHUCK-ch live.com (click) I came across a nice set of 18 pictures of members of the In-SHUCK-ch First...
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Klahoose Arborglyph
Klahoose Arborglyph Ceremony. Source: Klahoose First Nation. There has been a mini-flurry of new arborglyphs found in BC – well two of them - but they are extraordinarily rare. First up for this blog...
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‘Namgis Arborglyph
Dawn Cramer inspects an arborglyph deep in the heart of the Nimpkish Valley. Photo courtesy of the ‘Namgis Nation via Jim Stafford Hard on the heels of my recent post on a newly discovered arborglyph...
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