Coast Salish Canoes

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This classic is now reissued as an authorized Second Edition with more historic photos, full-color images, diagrams, and reflections from the author in a "Forty Years Later" section. Since first published by Seattle's Center for Wooden Boats in 1991, Coast Salish Canoes has endured as a source to better understand First Nations achievements.

"The best overview of the lore, technology and cultural heritage of local Native American watercraft.... [O]f great interest to maritime historians, museums, educators and anyone interested in Northwest Coast Native American art and culture." -- Association of King Country Community Museums.