The chroniclers left accounts of these nomadic marine people in their stories and testimonies:
« They have no houses nor towns, they have canoes made of the bark of cypresses and other trees. In which the women and children travel, and with thin branches and the bark of trees that they bring in their canoes, where ever they disembark they build small shelters, to protect them from water and the snow. We did not see any weapons...»
Ladrillero, 1880.
On the other hand the chronicler, Diego de Rosales, (1877), describes the Kawésqar canoes:
« They are made of bark, sewn with whale nerves, on top of one another, like a shell...»