This paper presents a description and interpretation of the similarities
of the precontact technologies (represented by 172 technological variables)
of twenty-eight Indian groups on the Northwest Coast of North America.
It is shown that relative proximity will "account for" much of the overall
pattern of technological similarities as revealed by a Smallest Space Analysis
of the matrix of similarity coefficients of the twenty-eight groups. Environ
mental characteristics seem to account for most of the deviations from
similarities based on proximity. The relations among the groups for seven
subcategories of technology are also briefly examined.
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