Birchbark Canoe publication

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The publication: "The Weymontaching Birchbark Canoe."
and the publication: "An Athapaskan type of knife."
are available from the Civilization Ca site
at:
http://www.civilization.ca/tresors/ethno/etp1200e.html

The Athapaskan knife is not a crooked knife:

"It is of copper with the handle wrapped with 'leather'
and with the proximal end split to represent
the horns of the mountain sheep. According to the
catalogue, it was made by "Chief Escalada of the
Chitena band of natives living on the Chitena
River, a branch of the Copper River in Alaska."
The knife is approximately 31 cm long."
 
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