Canoe and longhouses scratch-built by Don Ray. Photo
by Paul Hannah. The BUA sits on a steep hill overlooking a
Waterway. Don spent his 2006
summer holiday touring several Tsimshian and Gitxsan villages along Canada's rugged
Pacific Coast and designed his Waterway and BUA from historical pictures and
his own sketches of sites he saw.
15mm "Eureka 300 Club" Haida/Tlingit figures, painted in
the Tsimshian style by Mike Johnson, Calgary. The characteristic
designs on the buildings are temporary tattoos that he found in souvenir
shops in Prince Rupert, BC, along with souvenir totem poles.
Overview of the Waterway, BUA, and very steep hill, also characteristic of
terrain surrounding Indian coastal villages. (Surveying the situation is
Paul's cat, "Max".) Don defines the BUA as bordered on three sides by the
palisade and the clay/sand cliff on the water side. (In several games with
these features at ENFILADE, littoral landings and "boouh" raids proved very
entertaining, and no real rules-problems arose.
