Cowlitz Indian Burial Canoe #1

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Cowlitz Indian Burial Canoe #1

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The Cowlitz tribe were amongst the Native American Indians who changed the shape of their heads to a flat, elongated shape and nicknamed Flatheads by the Europeans. The Salish speaking Cowlitz tribe were part of the Chinook nation and were amongst the Native Indians encountered by the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1805, who referred to them as Skillutes. The Cowlitz burial site consisted of a great number of canoes that contained the bodies of Native Indians, each being carefully wrapped in blankets, and supplied with many of his personal effects in the form of jewelry, clothes, blankets, baskets, weapons and tools. Paul Kane (September 3, 1810 - February 20, 1871) was an Irish-born Canadian painter famous for his paintings of First Nations peoples in the Canadian West and in the Columbia District. The first trip (1845) took him from Toronto to Sault Ste. Marie and back. He set out on a second voyage (1846-48) from Toronto across the Rocky Mountains to Fort Vancouver and Fort Victoria. Kane produced more than 100 oil paintings, although he often embellished them, departing from the accuracy of his field sketches in favor of more dramatic scenes.

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August 4th, 2019

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