The Nootka Convention (1790) resolved the dispute and opened the north Pacific Coast to British settlement. Its seizure by the Spanish in 1789 became the subject of a controversy between Spain and Britain over claims in the region, which brought both countries to the brink of war.
Toronto Public Library, JRR 13 Cab IIīritish explorer and fur trader Captain John Meares established a trading post at Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island in 1788. From John Meares, Voyages Made in the Years 17. This ship would later be seized by the Spanish. Sale! Whaler – Makah $14.70 – $96.The launch of the North West America at Nootka Sound.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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