e.Their tools include harpoons and series of hooks and line for fishing. For construction stone drills, wedges and adzes, however the Nootka have hunting weaponry such as bow and arrow, spears and traps for hunting game. They both posses the skill of carpentry, they build houses and make boats and also paper with great skill and workmanship.The Tahitians provide separate housing for the chief and their homes are made by the top carpenters whereas the housing scheme of the Nootka. The Nootka families reside together and the chief occupies a rear corner. The household of the Nootka is the fundamental social and political unit of the society. The Nootka have different housing settlements for winter and summer. In the summer they are closer to the sea where in the winter the housing is closely packed and is in a sheltered cave. The Tahitians do not have the change of climate problem so they are more or less spread out around the land. When it come to cooking and eating the Tahitians men cook for themselves and the women for themselves. The Nootka women usually cook for the family but for elaborate feasts the men do the cooking. Boiling of fish and the cooking of meat except for sell fish, which are eaten raw are some of the similarities of them two. The Tahitians use an earth oven, the Nootka usually bail their fish over an open fire. They both cover the food in leaves to cook it farther. The Nootka use a lot of oil as subsistence for their cooking. The Tahitians eat two meals a day one at anytime in the morning and a heavy dinner at night, which is very ceremonious.For clothing, the Tahitians wear very little, for men a loincloth and a skirt for women made of tape cloth. On special occasions feather cloth are used as well a body art. The Nootka have a similar clothing system, for pleasant weather they may even go naked but for winter they may even use a cone-shaped hat. For special occasion they may wear cloth that are very elaborate as w...
