Also, Bracken Ferns were used as a sort of lid on food containers. This plant prefers marshes and swampy areas, The flower of the Skunk Cabbage appears in the spring before the leaves, Skunk cabbage is named after it's sickish sweet odour. Native people used skunk cabbage leaves for wrapping food or lining food containers. Red Alder Alnus Rubra Alder is a common tree. Its bark is slightly rough and grey.
Leaves are a dull green and grow to about three to five inches in length.
The strait grain of Alder wood makes it easy to carve, This wood was a natural choice of the natives for making dishes, spoons, and rattles. The wood was also valued as a fuel because of its hot smokeless flame. Salal Gaultheria Shallon Salal grows well in coastal forests and is easily identified by its leathery evergreen leaves. The white or pink flowers precede the hairy, purple-black berries which were traditionally harvested in late summer. Kwakiutl women traditionally wore special cedar bark, when harvesting salal berries.