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Chinook canoe 
a large dugout canoe used by the Indians of S.W. British Columbia and N.W. Washington.
- 1858 (1921) Every party that starts from the Sound should have their own supplies to last them three or four months, and they should bring the largest size chinook canoes, as small ones are liable to swamp in the rapids.
- 1907 The canoes of the Pacific Coast are of the type called "dugouts," that is . . . they are mostly cut out of a cedar log. In the south, the large ones were spoken of as "Chinook canoes, with rather a stub or short stern and a very high bow or neck.
- 1964 In the morning we got on board a large Chinook canoe, with five Indians and four white men.
- 1858 (1921) Every party that starts from the Sound should have their own supplies to last them three or four months, and they should bring the largest size chinook canoes, as small ones are liable to swamp in the rapids.