nters if they had a team of no less than five to ten members, so when a crew is overboard the others could rescue him, and also to out tug the whale when it is struggling for its life. The canoe should be quite immense because it has to be able to hold at least seven hundred pounds.
             Juxtaposed to the canoes were few paddles of various designs. The shape of canoe paddles vary in detail from one tribe group to another, each maintaining a range of traditional shapes that could be identical with the group. The used of the paddles as their only way to gain momentum proposed that the Makah hunters had to be physically robust. Moreover, whale hunting often requires the hunters to travel a trip that is quite distant and remote. This means Makah seafarers would have had the ability to navigate out of sight of land, because some of these fishing and sea mammal hunting areas can be as far as a hundred miles from shore. They were great whale hunters. The Makah hunted
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