Title: Northwest Coast Indigenous Peoples in Canada | The Canadian Encyclopedia
Headings: Northwest Coast Indigenous Peoples in Canada
Northwest Coast Indigenous Peoples in Canada
Indigenous Peoples of the Northwest Coast
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Content: Huge trunks were carved into dugout canoes and totem poles. (courtesy Lazare and Parker/National Wildlife Federation)
Northwest Coast Indigenous people harvested straight-grained cedars for planks and boards for houses, chests and boxes. Huge trunks were carved into dugout canoes and totem poles. Haida House
Haida proclaimed clan membership through an elaborate display of family crests, carved on totem poles erected in front of their houses. (Artwork by Gordon J. Miller)
Haida proclaimed clan membership through an elaborate display of family crests, carved on totem poles erected in front of their houses. Northwest Coast Paddles
Left to right: Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl), Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) and Haida. (artwork by Gordon Miller)
Left to right: Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl), Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) and Haida. Prev Next
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Northwest Coast Indigenous peoples generally lived in large post-and-beam structures in the winter.