a sixty-foot dugout canoe, used by the Haida Indians for raids on the mainland.
See also: canoe ((n.))
- 1869  We bought a large Hydah canoe for $50, and hired ten siwashes (nine Hydahs and one bog-will Indian), for $10 a month and board, to stop with us where we chose, and to go with us at least as far as their own villages.
- 1955  There is a specimen of a Haida canoe in the Natural History Museum in New York, sixty-four feet long and eight feet wide. . . .