PORT ANGELES — The Lower Elwha Klallam tribe felled a 165-foot tree that will be carved into a ceremonial canoe for ocean journeys Thursday on U.S. Forest Service land.
Tribal members and a logging crew felled the cedar near East Twin River, located 25 miles west of Port Angeles, then transported the bottom half of the tree to the reservation for a blessing ceremony.
The canoe that will be carved from the lower section of the 10-foot-wide western red cedar will replace the Elwha Warrior, which split during a seasonal trial run in 1999, Tribal Chairman Dennis Sullivan said.
