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Headings: Northwest Coast Indians
Northwest Coast Indians
Introduction
Traditional Culture
Peoples and Languages
Food
Settlements and Housing
Clothing
Technology and Arts
Society
Religion
European Contact and Cultural Change

Content: The blankets were made of cedar-bark fiber, mountain-goat wool, dogs’ hair, and feathers. Both women and men customarily wore some combination of necklaces, earrings, nose rings, bracelets, and anklets. These were made of various materials, mostly shells, copper, wood, and fur. Some people rubbed grease and ochre (an earthy iron ore) onto their skin to produce a red color, often accented with black. Tattooing was also practiced. Technology and Arts
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Woodworking    was the outstanding skill of the Northwest Coast. Traditional carving tools included adzes, mauls, wedges, chisels, drills, and curved knives, all made of stone. Sharkskin was used for sanding or polishing wooden items. Boatbuilders hollowed logs with fire to make the canoes they paddled in the streams as well as big seagoing whaling canoes. Other woodworkers steamed and bent planks to make boxes, tying the edges together with spruce roots.