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[email protected]. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 151 Anthropological Papers, No. 39 Aboriginal Navigation off the Coasts of Upper and Baja California By ROBERT F. HEIZER and WILLIAM C. MASSEY 285 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 151 PLATE 17 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 151 PLATE 18 South American Indians poisoning Fish, Fortaleza. Near Yurimongas. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 151 PLATE 19 PLANTATION OF FISH-POISON PLANTS, FORTALEZA, NEAR YURIMONGAS. CONTENTS PAGE Introduction 289 Tule balsas 291 Dugout canoes 296 Log rafts 299 Plank canoes 300 The double-bladed paddle in the New World 303 Bibliography 308 ILLUSTRATIONS PLATES 20. Seri balsa 312 21. Tule balsa from Santa Barbara Channel 312 22. A bark-log raft of Baja California 312 23.