The same method of adornment may be seen among the aborigines of Alaska and other regions of the North Pacific, to-day.

The figures are made of small pieces of wood neatly fitted together by inlaying and mortising, without any spike of any kind.

When one reflects that the Indians seen by Lewis and Clark constructed their large canoes with very poor tools, it is impossible to withhold one's admiration of their industry and patience.

The journal says:-- "Our admiration of their skill in these curious constructions was increased by observing the very inadequate implements which they use.
These Indians possess very few axes, and the only tool they employ, from felling the tree to the delicate workmanship of the images, is a chisel made of an old file, about an inch or an inch and a half in width.
Even of this, too, they have not learned the proper management; for the chisel is sometimes fixed in a large block of wood, and, being held in the right hand, the block is pushed with the left, without the aid of a mallet.

But under all these disadvantages, their canoes, which one would suppose to be the work of years, are made in a few weeks.