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Macintosh Picture Format  |  1996-09-10  |  186.3 KB  |  640x310  |  8-bit (234 colors)
   ocr: u A carved wolf flanked by stylized painted whales decorates the bow, and a carved bird and two de unfinished raven designs appear at the stern. The paintings are in Haida style, but the carvings are more typical of the style of the Bella Bella, who lived nearby. Perhaps a Bella Bella owned the canoe for a time. Expert shipwrights, Haida made canoes to sell to other tribes of the Northwest, who added their own 416