Types of canoes on Puget Sound

Name: Types of canoes on Puget Sound
Author: Geraldine Coffin

by Geraldine Coffin, T. T. (Thomas Talbot) Waterman

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Indian Notes and Monographs

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Charlene Taylor, Bryan Ness, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

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2015-06-05

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Canoes and canoeing Indians of North America -- History Indians of North America -- Boats E011

About the authors

Geraldine Coffin

An early 20th-century researcher of Native cultures in the Pacific Northwest, she is best known for co-authoring Types of Canoes on Puget Sound. Her work helped document Indigenous watercraft traditions at a time when museums and scholars were trying to record them in print.

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T. T. (Thomas Talbot) Waterman

1885–1936

Best remembered for helping bring Ishi to the University of California’s Museum of Anthropology, this early American anthropologist wrote vividly about Indigenous communities in California and beyond. His work helped preserve language, geography, and cultural knowledge that might otherwise have been lost.

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