![]() ![]() Muquinna emerges as the dominant Indian leader at the sound. From its beginning Nootka Sound was a popular port of call for traders, and it soon became an important centre of the trade. The publication of the journals of Cook’s third voyage revealed the profits to be made in a maritime fur trade with China. Friendly trading relations were established with the people of Yuquot, and a variety of items changed hands, including sea otter pelts, which Cook’s crews later traded at great profit in Canton (People’s Republic of China). It is quite possible that the Indian leader, not named by Cook, who held many discussions and arranged transactions with him was Muquinna. In fact, most of what we know about Muquinna is related in or must be inferred from the journals of European explorers and fur-traders.Īlthough the Spanish navigator Juan Josef Pérez Hernández was in the Nootka Sound area in 1774, the first extended contact between Nootka Indians and Europeans came in 1778 when Captain James Cook spent nearly a month at Ship Cove (Resolution Cove) refitting his ships. ![]() This same period was one of rivalry between Britain and Spain on the coast in which the Indians became involved. Muquinna’s leadership among the Nootka Indians coincided with the early years of contact with Europeans on the northwest coast and with the development of a maritime fur trade. Although it is not absolutely certain, there is evidence that the subject of this biography assumed leadership on the death of his father, Anapā, in 1778 and that he died in 1795, to be succeeded by another chief with the same name. This group had its most important summer village at Yuquot, at the mouth of Nootka Sound, and its winter village at Tahsis. Muquinna was the name of a series of ranking chiefs of the Moachat group of Nootka Indians. the name, written muk wina in proper native orthography, means possessor of pebbles he apparently was active as early as 1778 and probably died in 1795. Sale! Whaler – Makah $14.70 – $96.MUQUINNA (Macuina, Maquilla, Maquinna), Nootka chief on the west coast of what is now Vancouver Island, B.C.Sale! Whaler – Clayoquot $14.70 – $96.60 Select options.Sale! Whale ceremonial – Clayoquot $14.70 – $96.60 Select options.Sale! Waiting for the canoe $14.70 – $96.60 Select options.Sale! Shores of Nootka Sound $14.70 – $96.60 Select options. ![]() Sale! Seaweed gatherer $14.70 – $96.60 Select options.Sale! Return of halibut fishers $14.70 – $96.60 Select options.Sale! On the west coast of Vancouver Island $14.70 – $96.60 Select options.Sale! On the shores at Nootka $14.70 – $96.60 Select options.Sale! Oldest man of Nootka $14.70 – $96.60 Select options.Sale! Nootka woman wearing cedar-bark blanket $14.70 – $96.60 Select options.Sale! Nootka woman $14.70 – $96.60 Select options.Sale! Nootka method of spearing $14.70 – $96.60 Select options.Sale! Nootka man $14.70 – $96.60 Select options.Sale! Makah maiden $14.70 – $96.60 Select options.Sale! Into the shadow – Clayoquot $14.70 – $96.60 Select options.Sale! Hesquiat woman $14.70 – $96.60 Select options.Sale! Hesquiat root digger $14.70 – $96.60 Select options.Sale! Hesquiat maiden $14.70 – $96.60 Select options.Sale! Haiyahl – Nootka $14.70 – $96.60 Select options.Sale! Fish spearing – Clayoquot $14.70 – $96.60 Select options.Sale! Clayoquot girl $14.70 – $96.60 Select options.Sale! Ceremonial bathing $14.70 – $96.60 Select options.Sale! Captured whale $14.70 – $96.60 Select options.Sale! Canoeing on Clayoquot Sound $14.70 – $96.60 Select options.Sale! Boarding the canoe $14.70 – $96.60 Select options.Sale! Berry-picker – Clayoquot $14.70 – $96.60 Select options.Sale! Bark gatherer $14.70 – $96.60 Select options.Sale! At Nootka $14.70 – $96.60 Select options.The principal foods were clams, mussels, dried halibut, dried salmon, the oil and meat of whales and hair-seals, seaweed, and various roots and berries, notably fern-roots and elderberries, salalberries, and huckleberries. The house with roof sloping from the middle to both sides was apparently an innovation from the east coast of Vancouver Island. The primitive Nuu-chah-nulth house had a roof sloping from front to rear and supported by beams running in the same direction, which in turn rested on heavy posts. Men wore the hair loose or twisted in a knot women had it in two braids down the back. Both sexes used hats in rain and hot sunshine, those of the common people being woven bark and those of the nobility, spruce-roots. ![]() In rainy weather bark capes like a poncho were worn. Curtis Tribal Summary Dressīoth Nuu-chah-nulth sexes wore cedar-bark or fur robes pinned together at the right side, and women had in addition bark aprons extending from waist to knees. Nuu-chah-nulth Indian Photos by Edward S. ![]()
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