atrip, splat!

[Elliott A Moreton]

> atrip - n. - double-prowed kayak of the Kwakiutl people
> by Eric, 4 points total
> 2, correctly guessing definition
> 2, Hutch: "Well, I have a distinct memory of there being a real circum-polar 
> tribe named "Kwakiutl" but that could be merest verisimilitude. But I'm going 
> with it (good thing, I've eliminated everything else)"
> I somehow *want* to consider this plausible, but every time I try to imagine 
> it, I just can't. J-J

Oh, they exist all right.  A clerihew I heard from Amalia Gnanadesikan:

	Franz Boas
	Took up fieldwork so as
	Not to feel so futile
	As folks who don't speak Kwakiutl

I think this was supposed to be by someone who was going through some 
biographical dictionary writing one for every name.

em