north western india coast,culture,food....

Lived coastal north-western India in what is now Alaska along the Pacific coast to the bottom of Northern California. This was a strip of rugged land with many small islands and bays deep and narrow beaches. The rise of the mountains from the beach in many places. Thick forests of pine, cedar, and fir dominate the region and provide an endless supply of wood. Many rivers and streams cross the land. He lived in 1750 by more than 100,000 Indians in this area because it was richer in natural resources than any other region of North America.
Homes :
Model built by the student's plankhouse
Most of the villages consisted of large rectangular houses. Each 30 to 40 people. Was made by covering a wide planked with two packages in the gabled north. Were often decorated with figures carved posts. Was divided by floors ground floor mats woven into family units. Several families lived in one of these large structures. They were allowed to each family of space about the size of the barn stall. And each family had its own fire, but did not participate cookfires in the center of the building. Beyond the southern cone roofs low. Homes built in the North race for both men and women, for men only in the south, stood a large totem poles carved from tree trunks in front of houses. Totem poles and showed the address of the head of the family.    
Dress :
Wore clothes coastal northwest Indian bit. Except for long trips they went barefoot. The men wore fur hats or baskets. Rain heads wearing robes and leather fiber. The men wore rags behind. Men tattoo their arms and hands to measure dentalium. Dentalium shell was composed together, and use the funds.
Dressed women living in the Washington area fringed skirts cedar, bark or skin of goats. Elsewhere in a series of women wearing aprons fiber or lead aprons and back, the skin.
Women wore hats, baskets, rain heads and sleeveless jackets, dresses and some leather. Some of the women tattoo their chins. The clothing woven of strips of bark fiber.
Food :
Can coastal Northwest Indians fishing enough during the summer salmon run to feed themselves for the whole winter. Indians also caught a variety of food including halibut, cod, sea. Eat oysters and crabs, seals, sea otters, sea lions, and whales. Tracked and wild animals including men bear, caribou, deer, elk, and moose. In some areas can be found mountain goats. Women gathered roots, berries, seaweed and salt, nuts, mushrooms, nuts, bulbs Kamas. And some berries and berries favorites.
Customs :
Coastal tribes in the north west are sometimes gathered together for the potlatch. The person hosting the potlatch away many gifts to his guests as he can. Showed this was rich. These celebrations can last for several days. Singing, dancing, story-telling part of the celebration.
Took the coastal north-western Indian slaves. The slaves were a sign of wealth. And kept close to the camp for fear children would be stolen by another tribe and becomes a slave.
Tools / weapons :
Chase only two Indian tribes of coastal north-west, and Mecca and Nootka, for food in the sea. They built a large cruising boats. Some of the more than 60 feet long. On boats built of trunks of cedar trees and huge redwood. Boats can hold up to 60 men. In Mecca and Nootka carved in the pictures often painted and put designs on their own boats.
Build a large boat called an umiak Inuit. Umiak was about 30 feet in length. When a whale was seen was the first president to strike it with his bayonet. Then joined the others. After the whale died, the Indians tied to shut the mouths of the lungs so the whale can not be filled with water. And the whale become heavy and sink if this were to happen. Were withdrawn and then return the whale to the beach.
Once the whale was pulled to shore, and cut him. Been divided into the meat. Used as a source of whale oil and bone for the various tools. The whole tribe could live for a full year in 2-4 whales.
Art :
Northwest Indians believed that they are closely linked both in their families to a certain animal. The animals, common crow, Thunderbird, and the eagle, wolf, killer whale, and bear. And used these animals and designs for many of the objects. Flattened and in some cases, designs or bent in the form of object was being developed. Developed parts of the animals in the ovals square, solid curve-shaped sections of U.
Coastal north-western India, and carved wooden masks painted. These dances have been used during the celebrations. Acted outside the ancestral dances, legends and family assets. It seemed sometimes masked dancers through trap doors or swinging in the air on a rope to look like it was flying. The ceremony was held to set the details. When put on the masks, the dancers took on the character represented the spirit of the mask.