Coast Salish Wooly Dog History Talk
Posted May 4, 2017 at 5:46 am by Tim Dustrude
For weavers, dog-lovers and anyone interested in the Coast Salish peoples…
88-15529, Blanket, Salish, catalog #E1891A, N. W. Coast, Salish Indian Culture, North American Ethnology Collection, woven dyed wool geometric motif, plain view
Join ecologist and historian Russel Barsh and botanist and spinner Madrona Murphy for a slideshow presentation and weaving demonstration celebrating the Coast Salish “wooly dog” and the first peoples of the islands.
Sunday, May 7th, 5:30pm at Brickworks
Sponsored by Kwiaht. For more information contact Sandy Strehlou, (360) 622-2037 or [email protected].
“Dogs were named, highly valued and often buried wrapped in a blanket. Dog remains and dog burials are not uncommon in Coast Salish archaeology. A dog buried with a young woman was unearthed on Lopez Island by a University of Washington field school in 1968. DNA extracted from archaeological dog remains provides physical evidence for Coast Salish villages maintaining locally distinct dog breeds.”
~ Coast Salish Woolly Dogs [Russel Barsh, HistoryLink.org Essay 11243]
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Categories: Education, History
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I am a coast salish person I didn’t read all of it but was there mention of the dogs being used to pull nets for salmon and even waterfowl they even used them to drive game and there where bugger dogs to help move them game this was told to me threw our story telling tradition
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