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To: Crocodile who wrote (40245)	10/21/1999 8:03:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Ooh ooh ooh ~ want to respond, float, but must go......granite float.... eom

To: Crocodile who wrote (40245)	10/21/1999 9:55:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Respond to of 71178

Croc, have you seen the book Cedar. (I think it's called.) It is a terrific story. Lecture, expose, whatever, on how the Indians of the PNW survived on practically ONE environmental asset, the Western Red Cedar. It IS, an AWESOMELY useful tree. I went to a lecture by the author, in Portland, in about 1978? At the time, kind of amazingly, I was studying the assets of various woods; their assets across several ranges of factors. Was thinking of including this in a book. And, was researching cedar. (Redwood and the Douglas fir are other, truly superior trees ~ especially redwood.) The woman audio-visually lecturing was magnificent, and it was a journey into a lovely culture of the past. My gawd, how harmonized. And sophisticated. Strangely Japanese. Centuries, of obvious evolution, immediately apparent. It was delightful. Anyway, I hated to be a miserable smarty-pants party poop, but I pointed out that at that time (and perhaps still?) Cedar was an opportunity specie, not being replanted in a single location of Oregon or Washington. This sad and stunning fact was a surprise to her, but, shee-it, there ya go. It sorta seemed relevant. A contrast, perhaps, of two civilization types. Their values. (Their knowledge!) Anyway, that wasn't what I was thinking about, it was the Haida villages and the granite floor, but it looks like I got distracted again. And still, I was also wondering if you feel any aesthetic/cultural sympathies, perhaps non-superficial, between the NW Coast Indians, and Japan. Japan, of course, of the earlier centuries. It was only after looking at both of these, among others, for a long time, that I began to see how literally similar they are. In structures and implements, and fabrics and graphics, not necc customs. I dunno if this is clear. Oh well. Heh heh. It's probly croc-clear. :o)