The Salish Wool Dog, also known as the Comox dog or Clallam Indian Dog, [1] is an extinct breed of white, long-haired, Spitz-type dog that was developed and bred by the Coast Salish peoples of what is now Washington state and British Columbia for textile production.

2024年1月16日 · Researchers studying the 160-year-old fur of a dog named Mutton in the Smithsonian collections found that the Indigenous breed existed for at least 5,000 years before European colonizers...

2023年12月14日 · In a new paper published today in Science, a team of researchers and members of Coast Salish nations recovers the dog’s history with DNA from a dog pelt collected more than 150 years ago and interviews with people living today. The genetic data confirm that the woolly dog was no legend; it had distinct genes that contributed to its curly undercoat.

2021年2月23日 · Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest’s coastal regions have a deep and rich history with dogs. Wool dogs have been elusive, but they were part of communities that lived in the areas around Puget Sound, Vancouver Island, and the BC Lower Mainland for …

Ancestral Coast Salish societies in the Pacific Northwest kept long-haired “woolly dogs” that were bred and cared for over millennia. However, the dog wool–weaving tradition declined during the 19th century, and the population was lost.

2023年12月14日 · Now, the world’s only known pelt of a Salish woolly dog, who was named Mutton, is helping researchers at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, in partnership with Coast Salish...

2021年7月21日 · The Salish woolly dog was a small, usually white, long-haired dog with a curled tail and thick fur very similar to sheep's wool. Bred before European contact, the oldest remains of the dog were...

Textiles confirmed to be woven with woolly dog hair are rare in museum collections. The only known woolly dog fleece is in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, collected in the mid-1800s. Determining what kind of wool was used to weave textiles by just looking at them is nearly impossible.

2023年12月18日 · “Woolly dogs” that were kept by the Coast Salish peoples are now extinct, but researchers were able to see their importance written in the genome of the only known pelt. Full-body forensic...

2019年3月30日 · These dogs lived with Coast Salish Nations in what is now Washington and British Columbia and were an important part of daily life in the area. They were described as small, long-haired dogs with a thick, usually white coat, …