How a 160-year-old pelt piqued new findings on Indigenous ‘woolly dog’ breed

Mongabay
Dec 22, 2023, 3:41 pm167 pts
If any dog has held much of a cultural, economic, and spiritual significance to the Indigenous nations in the Pacific Northwest Coast, it was the Coast Salish woolly dog. In British Columbia, Washington and Oregon, their fluffy fleece and thick undercoats were sheared like sheep by high-status women and spun…

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