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To: Gauguin who wrote (40267)	10/21/1999 11:06:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Tomorrow morning I'm having 10 cubic yards of topsoil delivered. That's 270 cubic feet of dirt, to be dumped in my driveway, and carried by me and Chris in back of the house in a wheelbarrow, and dumped around the poor maple whose roots are all exposed. I hope the kids will help, too, they can carry buckets full. The bucket brigade. And I've got sacks of grass seed for shady areas. Hope springing eternal, and all that.

To: Gauguin who wrote (40267)	10/21/1999 11:17:00 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Yes,...think I've seen and read the book Cedar... lots of nice drawings in it if it's the one I'm thinking about... Some of the things which were done with that cedar... like those hats that were woven from the very finest cedar fibre...and baskets... objects woven from the long thin "hair" of the cedar roots... And yes,... there are a lot of interesting parallels in West Coast culture and those of China, Japan, even Siberia and other cultures of the Pacific... Did you happen to see the exhibition which toured about... uhm... 7 years ago... "Crossroads of the Continents"... a joint exhibition put together by the Smithsonian and whatever powers existed in the USSR at that time. Beautiful exhibit which focused on similarities in objects, iconography, clothing, ritual,... Interesting to see old chinese coins incorporated into West Coast aboriginal objects well over a century ago. The explanation is that wrecked boats from China would occasionally wash up on the BC shores... Some very strange ceremonial clothing in the exhibit... One thing in particular that was very odd and bizarre... a cape make from the soft feathered throat skins of...I think it may have been cormorants... hundreds of them... and with hundreds of little puffin beaks dangling from it... I believe it was a cape for a shaman... It was both undeniably beautiful, but macabre and unpleasant to one who loves birds... Lots of other interesting objects... I get carried away thinking about such things... Can you tell? ;-}>