[350]For description of the various roots and berries used by the Chinooks as food, seeLewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 450-5.[351]The Multnomahs 'are very fond of cold, hot, and vapour baths, which are used at all seasons, and for the purpose of health as well as pleasure. They, however, add a species of bath peculiar to themselves, by washing the whole body with urine every morning.'Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 509, 409. Eat insects from each other's head, for the animals bite them, and they claim the right to bite back.Kane's Wand., pp. 183-4.[352]Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 323-4; vol. ii., p. 13;Irving's Astoria, pp. 324, 338;Ross' Adven., p. 90;Kane's Wand., p. 189;Catlin's N. Am. Ind., vol. ii., p. 113, pl. 210½;Dunn's Oregon, pp. 124-5;Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 429-31, 509;Hines' Ogn., p. 110;Franchère's Nar., p. 253;Emmons, inSchoolcraft's Arch., vol. iii., pp. 206-7, 215-16, 468.[353]'When the conflict is postponed till the next day, ... they keep up frightful cries all night long, and, when they are sufficiently near to understand each other, defy one another by menaces, railleries, and sarcasms, like the heroes of Homer and Virgil.'Franchère's Nar., pp. 251-4;Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 322-3;Dunn's Oregon, p. 124;Irving's Astoria, pp. 340-1;Ross' Fur Hunters, vol. i., pp. 88, 105-8;Domenech's Deserts, vol. ii., p. 354;Stanley's Portraits, pp. 61-2;Foster's Pre-Hist. Races, p. 232.[354]Pickering makes 'the substitution of the water-proof basket, for the square wooden bucket of the straits' the chief difference between this and the Sound Family.Races, inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. ix., p. 25;Emmons, inSchoolcraft's Arch., vol. iii., p. 206;Vancouver's Voy., vol. ii., p. 77;Ross' Adven., p. 92;Domenech's Deserts, vol. ii., pp. 241, 260;Franchère's Nar., pp. 248-9;Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 432-5;Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 329-32;Dunn's Oregon, pp. 138-9;Catlin's N. Am. Ind., vol. ii., p. 113, pl. 210½, showing cradle, ladles, Wapato diggers,Pautomaugons, or war clubs and pipes.Parker's Explor. Tour, pp. 248-9;Kane's Wand., pp. 184-5, 188-9.[355]Swan's N. W. Coast, pp. 161-3;Parker's Explor. Tour, p. 253.[356]Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 433-5. 'Hollowed out of the cedar by fire, and smoothed off with stone axes.'Kane's Wand., p. 189. At Cape Orford 'their shape much resembled that of a butcher's tray.'Vancouver's Voy., vol. i., p. 204. 'A human face or a white-headed eagle, as large as life, carved on the prow, and raised high in front.'Ross' Adven., pp. 97-8. 'In landing they put the canoe round, so as to strike the beach stern on.'Franchère's Nar., p. 246. 'The larger canoes on the Columbia are sometimes propelled by short oars.'Emmons, inSchoolcraft's Arch., vol. iii., p. 218. 'Finest canoes in the world.'Wilkes' Hist. Ogn., p. 107;Parker's Explor. Tour, p. 252;Dunn's Oregon, pp. 121-2;Swan's N. W. Coast, pp. 79-82, with cuts;Irving's Astoria, pp. 86, 324;Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 325-7;Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., p. 217;Domenech's Deserts, vol. ii., pp. 276-7;Brownell's Ind. Races, pp. 535-7;Gass' Jour., p. 279.[357]Dried and pounded salmon, prepared by a method not understood except at the falls, formed a prominent article of commerce, both with coast and interior nations.Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 444-7, 413. A fathom of the largest hiaqua shells is worth about ten beaver-skins. A dying man gave his property to his intimate friends 'with a promise on their part to restore them if he recovered.'Franchère's Nar., pp. 244-5, 137;Ross' Adven., pp. 87-8, 95-6;Swan's N. W. Coast, p. 166;Irving's Astoria, p. 322;Dunn's Oregon, pp. 133-4;Cox's Adven., vol. i., p. 333;Thornton's Ogn. and Cal., vol. i., p. 392;Kane's Wand., p. 185;Domenech's Deserts, vol. ii., p. 250;Gass' Jour., p. 227;Morton's Crania Am., pp. 202-14;Fédix,l'Orégon, pp. 44-5.[358]Have no idea of drawing maps on the sand. 'Their powers of computation ... are very limited.'Emmons, inSchoolcraft's Arch., vol. iii., pp. 205, 207;Lewis and Clarke's Trav., p. 493;Ross' Adven., pp. 88-9, 98;Kane's Wand., p. 185.[359]The Willamette tribes, nine in number, were under four principal chiefs.Ross' Adven., pp. 235-6, 88, 216. Casanov, a famous chief at Fort Vancouver employed a hired assassin to remove obnoxious persons.Kane's Wand., pp. 173-6;Franchère's Nar., p. 250;Irving's Astoria, pp. 88, 340;Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 322-3;Parker's Explor. Tour, p. 253;Lewis and Clarke's Trav., p. 443.[360]'Live in the same dwelling with their masters, and often intermarry with those who are free.'Parker's Explor. Tour, pp. 197, 247. 'Treat them with humanity while their services are useful.'Franchère's Nar., p. 241. Treated with great severity.Kane's Wand., pp. 181-2;Lewis and Clarke's Trav., p. 447;Ross' Adven., pp. 92-3;Irving's Astoria, p. 88;Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 305-6;Dunn's Oregon, pp. 129-30;Fitzgerald's Hud. B. Co., pp. 196-7;Stanley's Portraits, pp. 61-2.[361]Swan's N. W. Coast, pp. 161, 171;Emmons, inSchoolcraft's Arch., vol. iii., pp. 211-2. 'In proportion as we approach the rapids from the sea, female impurity becomes less perceptible; beyond this point it entirely ceases.'Cox's Adven., vol. ii., pp. 134, 159; vol. i., pp. 366-7, 318;Wells, inHarper's Mag., vol. xiii., p. 602;Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 439-43. Ceremonies of a widow in her endeavors to obtain a new husband.Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. v., p. 124;Ross' Adven., pp. 88, 92-3;Franchère's Nar., pp. 245, 254-5;Hunter's Cap., p. 70;Hines' Voy., p. 113;Domenech's Deserts, vol. ii., pp. 16, 294-5;Irving's Astoria, p. 340;Dunn's Oregon, pp. 132-3;Lord's Nat., vol. ii., pp. 231-2;Kane's Wand., pp. 175-7, 182;Gass' Jour., p. 275;Strickland's Hist. Missions, pp. 139-40.[362]'I saw neither musical instruments, nor dancing, among the Oregon tribes.'Pickering's Races, inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. ix., p. 43. 'All extravagantly fond of ardent spirits, and are not particular what kind they have, provided it is strong, and gets them drunk quickly.'Swan's N. W. Coast, pp. 155-8, 197-202. 'Not addicted to intemperance.'Franchère's Nar., p. 242. At gambling 'they will cheat if they can, and pride themselves on their success.'Kane's Wand., pp. 190, 196. Seldom cheat, and submit to their losses with resignation.Cox's Adven., vol. i., p. 332;Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 410, 443-4;Wells, inHarper's Mag., vol. xiii., p. 601, and cut of dance at Coos Bay;Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., pp. 392-3; vol. v., p. 123;Vancouver's Voy., vol. ii., p. 77;Ross' Fur Hunters, vol. i., pp. 90-4, 112-13;Dunn's Oregon, pp. 114-15, 121, 125-8, 130-1;Parker's Explor. Tour, pp. 247-8;Domenech's Deserts, vol. ii., p. 242;Irving's Astoria, p. 341;Palmer's Jour., p. 86.[363]Tolmie, inLord's Nat., vol. ii., p. 248;Gass' Jour., pp. 232, 275;Dunn's Oregon, pp. 123-8;Kane's Wand., pp. 205, 255-6;Swan's N. W. Coast, p. 267;Schoolcraft's Arch., vol. v., p. 654.[364]Doctors, if unsuccessful, are sometimes subjected to rough treatment, but rarely killed, except when they have previously threatened the life of the patient.Swan's N. W. Coast, pp. 176-185. At the Dalles an old woman, whose incantations had caused a fatal sickness, was beheaded by a brother of the deceased.Ind. Life, pp. 173-4, 142-3. Whole tribes have been almost exterminated by the small-pox.Stevens, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., pp. 82, 179. Venereal disease prevalent, and a complete cure is never effected.Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 440, 508. Generally succeed in curing venereal disease even in its worst stage.Ross' Adven., pp. 96-9. The unsuccessful doctor killed, unless able to buy his life.Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., p. 394. Flatheads more subject to apoplexy than others.Domenech's Deserts, vol. i., p. 87;Cox's Adven., vol. i., p. 126-7, 307, 312-15, 335, vol. ii., pp. 94-5;Townsend's Nar., pp. 158, 178-9;Franchère's Nar., p. 250;Dunn's Oregon, pp. 115-9, 127;Thornton's Ogn. and Cal., vol. ii., p. 53;Parker's Explor. Tour, pp. 176, 191-2;Fitzgerald's Hud. B. Co., pp. 171-2;Strickland's Hist. Missions, pp. 139-40.[365]A chief on the death of his daughter 'had an Indian slave bound hand and foot, and fastened to the body of the deceased, and enclosed the two in another mat, leaving out the head of the living one. The Indian then took the canoe and carried it to a high rock and left it there. Their custom is to let the slave live for three days; then another slave is compelled to strangle the victim by a cord.'Letter, inSchoolcraft's Arch., vol. ii., p. 71. See also vol. iii., pp. 217-18; vol. vi., pp. 616-23, with plate; vol. v., p. 655. 'The emblem of a squaw's grave is generally a camass-root digger, made of a deer's horns, and fastened on the end of a stick.'Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. v., pp. 233-4, vol. iv., p. 394. 'I believe I saw as many as an hundred canoes at one burying place of the Chinooks.'Gass' Jour., p. 274. 'Four stakes, interlaced with twigs and covered with brush,' filled with dead bodies.Abbott, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. vi., p. 88. At Coos Bay, 'formerly the body was burned, and the wife of the corpse killed and interred.' Now the body is sprinkled with sand and ashes, the ankles are bent up and fastened to the neck; relatives shave their heads and put the hair on the body with shells and roots, and the corpse is then buried and trampled on by the whole tribe.Wells, inHarper's Mag., vol. xiii., p. 602. 'The canoe-coffins were decorated with rude carved work.'Vancouver's Voy., vol. ii., p. 54. Strangers are paid to join in the lamentations.Ross' Adven., p. 97. Children who die during the head-flattening process are set afloat in their cradles upon the surface of some sacred pool, where the bodies of the old are also placed in their canoes.Catlin's N. Am. Ind., vol. ii., p. 111. On burial and mourning see also,Swan's N. W. Coast, pp. 72-3, 13, 186-9, with cut of canoe on platform.Mofras' Explor., vol. ii., p. 355, and pl. 18 ofAtlas;Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 423, 429, 509;Kane's Wand., pp. 176-8, 181, 202-5;Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 124-5, 335-6, vol. ii., p. 157;Parker's Explor. Tour, pp. 144, 151-2;Thornton's Ogn. and Cal., vol. i., pp. 281-2, vol. ii., p. 53;Belcher's Voy., vol. i., p. 292;Domenech's Deserts, vol. i., p. 255;Dunn's Oregon, pp. 119-20, 131-2;Nicolay's Ogn. Ter., pp. 149-50;Fremont's Ogn. and Cal., p. 186;Irving's Astoria, p. 99;Franchère's Nar., p. 106;Palmer's Jour., p. 87;Ind. Life, p. 210;Townsend's Nar., p. 180.[366]'The clumsy thief, who is detected, is scoffed at and despised.'Dunn's Oregon, pp. 130-1, 114. 'The Kalapuya, like the Umkwa, ... are more regular and quiet' than the inland tribes, 'and more cleanly, honest and moral than the' coast tribes. The Chinooks are a quarrelsome, thievish, and treacherous people.Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., pp. 217, 215, 198, 204. 'A rascally, thieving set.'Gass' Jour., p. 304. 'When well treated, kind and hospitable.'Swan's N. W. Coast, pp. 215, 110, 152. At Cape Orford 'pleasing and courteous deportment ... scrupulously honest.'Vancouver's Voy., vol. i., pp. 204-5. Laziness is probably induced by the ease with which they obtain food.Kane's Wand., pp. 181, 185. 'Crafty and intriguing.' Easily irritated, but a trifle will appease him.Ross' Fur Hunters, vol. i., p. 61, 70-1, 77, 88, 90-1, 124-5, 235-6. 'They possess in an eminent degree, the qualities opposed to indolence, improvidence, and stupidity: the chiefs above all, are distinguished for their good sense and intelligence. Generally speaking, they have a ready intellect and a tenacious memory.' 'Rarely resist the temptation of stealing' white men's goods.Franchère's Nar., pp. 241-2, 261. Loquacious, never gay, knavish, impertinent.Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 416, 441-2, 504, 523-4. 'Thorough-bred hypocrites and liars.' 'The Killymucks the most roguish.' Industry, patience, sobriety and ingenuity are their chief virtues; thieving, lying, incontinence, gambling and cruelty may be classed among their vices.Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 115, 131, 296-7, 302, 304-5, 321, vol. ii., p. 133. At Wishiam 'they were a community of arrant rogues and freebooters.'Irving's Astoria, pp. 322, 342. 'Lying is very common; thieving comparatively rare.'White's Ogn., p. 207. 'Do not appear to possess a particle of natural good feeling.'Townsend's Nar., p. 183. At Coos Bay 'by no means the fierce and warlike race found further to the northward.'Wells, inHarper's Mag., vol. xiii., p. 601. Umqua and Coose tribes are naturally industrious; the Suislaws the most advanced; the Alcea not so enterprising.Sykes, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1860, p. 215. Calapooias, a poor, cowardly, and thievish race.Miller, inId., 1857, p. 364;Nicolay's Ogn. Ter., p. 151;Domenech's Deserts, vol. i., p. 87, vol. ii., pp. 16, 36;Warre and Vavasour, inMartin's Hud. B., p. 83;Palmer's Jour., pp. 84, 105;Parker's Explor. Tour, pp. 249-50;Ind. Life, pp. 1-4, 210;Fitzgerald's Vanc. Isl., p. 196;Schoolcraft's Arch., vol. iii., p. 207, etc.[367]'They all resemble each other in general characteristics.'Parker's Explor. Tour, p. 229. Shushwaps and Salish all one race.Mayne's B. C., p. 296-7. 'The Indians of the interior are, both physically and morally, vastly superior to the tribes of the coast.'Id., p. 242. 'The Kliketat near Mount Rainier, the Walla-Wallas, and the Okanagan ... speak kindred dialects.'Ludewig,Ab. Lang., p. 170. The best-supported opinion is that the inland were of the same original stock with the lower tribes.Dunn's Oregon, p. 316. 'On leaving the verge of the Carrier country, near Alexandria, a marked change is at once perceptible.'Anderson, inHist. Mag., vol. vii., p. 77. Inland tribes differ widely from the piscatorial tribes.Ross' Adven., p. 127. 'Those residing near the Rocky Mountains ... are and always have been superior races to those living on the lower Columbia.'Alvord, inSchoolcraft's Arch., vol. v., p. 654. 'I was particularly struck with their vast superiority (on the Similkameen River, Lat. 49° 30´, Long. 120° 30´) in point of intelligence and energy to the Fish Indians on the Fraser River, and in its neighbourhood.'Palmer, inB. C. Papers, vol. iii., p. 84. Striking contrast noted in passing up the Columbia.Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., p. 199.[368]'The Shewhapmuch ... who compose a large branch of the Saeliss family,' known asNicute-much—corrupted by the Canadians into Couteaux—below the junction of the Fraser and Thompson.Anderson, inHist. Mag., vol. vii., p. 76-7. Atnahs is their name in the Takali language, and signifies 'strangers.' 'Differ so little from their southern neighbors, the Salish, as to render a particular description unnecessary.'Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., p. 205. They were called by Mackenzie the Chin tribe, according toPrichard's Researches, vol. v., p. 427, but Mackenzie's Chin tribe was north of the Atnahs, being the Nagailer tribe of the Carriers. SeeMackenzie's Voy., pp. 257-8, and map.[369]'About Okanagan, various branches of the Carrier tribe.'Nicolay's Ogn. Ter., p. 143. 'Okanagans, on the upper part of Frazer's River.'Ludewig,Ab. Lang., p. 170.[370]Also known as Flat-bows. 'The poorest of the tribes composing the Flathead nation.'McCormick, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1867, p. 211. 'Speaking a language of their own, it is not easy to imagine their origin; but it appears probable that they once belonged to some more southern tribe, from which they became shut off by the intervention of larger tribes.'Mayne's B. C., p. 297. 'In appearance, character, and customs, they resemble more the Indians east of the Rocky Mountains than those of Lower Oregon.'Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., p. 205. 'Les Arcs-à-Plats, et les Koetenais sont connus dans le pays sous le nom de Skalzi.'De Smet,Miss. de l'Orégon, p. 80.[371]The origin of the name Flathead, as applied to this nation, is not known, as they have never been known to flatten the head. 'The mass of the nation consists of persons who have more or less of the blood of the Spokanes, Pend d'Oreilles, Nez Perces, and Iroquois.'Stevens, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1854, p. 207;Pac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., p. 150;Catlin's N. Am. Ind., vol. ii., p. 108;Stuart's Montana, p. 82. Gass applied the name apparently to tribes on the Clearwater of the Sahaptin family.Jour., p. 224.[372]Also calledKalispelmsandPonderas. The Upper Pend d'Oreilles consist of a number of wandering families of Spokanes, Kalispelms proper, and Flatheads.Suckley, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., p. 294;Stevens, inId., p. 149;Stevens, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1854, p. 210. 'Very similar in manners, etc., to the Flatheads, and form one people with them.'De Smet,Miss. de l'Orégon, p. 32.[373]The native name, according to Hale, isSkitsuish, and Coeur d'Alêne, 'Awl heart,' is a nickname applied from the circumstance that a chief used these words to express his idea of the Canadian traders' meanness.Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., p. 210.[374]Quiarlpi, 'Basket People,'Chaudieres, 'Kettles,'Kettle Falls,Chualpays,Skoielpoi, andLakes, are some of the names applied to these bands.[375]'Ils s'appellent entre eux les Enfants du Soleil, dans leur langue Spokane.'De Smet,Miss. de l'Orégon, p. 31. 'Differing very little from the Indians at Colville, either in their appearance, habits, or language.'Kane's Wand., p. 307.[376]So much intermarried with the Yakamas that they have almost lost their nationality.'Stevens, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1854, p. 236.[377]'Pierced Noses,' so named by the Canadians, perhaps from the nasal ornaments of the first of the tribe seen, although the custom of piercing the nose has never been known to be prevalent with this people. 'Generally known and distinguished by the name of "black robes," in contradistinction to those who live on fish.' Named Nez Perces from the custom of boring the nose to receive a white shell, like the fluke of an anchor.Ross' Fur Hunters, vol. i., pp. 305, 185-6. 'There are two tribes of the Pierced-Nose Indians, the upper and the lower.Brownell's Ind. Races, pp. 533-5. 'Though originally the same people, their dialect varies very perceptibly from that of the Tushepaws.'Lewis and Clarke's Trav., p. 341. CalledThoiga-rik-kah,Tsoi-gah, 'Cowse-eaters,' by the Snakes. 'Ten times better off to-day than they were then'—'a practical refutation of the time-honored lie, that intercourse with whites is an injury to Indians.'Stuart's Montana, pp. 76-7. 'In character and appearance, they resemble more the Indians of the Missouri than their neighbors, the Salish.'Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., p. 212;Domenech's Deserts, vol. ii., p. 54.[378]'La tribu Paloose appartient à la nation des Nez-percés et leur ressemble sous tous les rapports.'De Smet,Voy., p. 31.[379]The name comes from that of the river. It should be pronounced Wălă-Wălă, very short.Pandosy's Gram., p. 9. 'Descended from slaves formerly owned and liberated by the Nez Perces.'Parker's Explor. Tour, p. 247. 'Not unlike the Pierced-Noses in general appearance, language, and habits.'Brownell's Ind. Races, pp. 533-5. Parts of three different nations at the confluence of the Snake and Columbia.Gass' Jour., pp. 218-19, 'None of the Indians have any permanent habitations' on the south bank of the Columbia about and above the Dalles.Lewis and Clarke's Trav., p. 365. 'Generally camping in winter on the north side of the river.'Ind. Aff. Rept., 1854, p. 223.[380]The name Yakima is a word meaning 'Black Bear' in the Walla Walla dialect. They are called Klikatats west of the mountains.Gibbs, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., p. 407. 'The Klikatats and Yakimas, in all essential peculiarities of character, are identical, and their intercourse is constant.'Id., p. 403, andStevens, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1854, p. 225. 'Pshawanwappam bands, usually called Yakamas.' The name signifies 'Stony Ground.'Gibbs, inPandosy's Gram., p. vii. 'Roil-roil-pam, is the Klikatat country.' 'Its meaning is "the Mouse country."'Id.The Yakima valley is a great national rendezvous for these and surrounding nations.Ross' Fur Hunters, vol. i., pp. 19, 21. Kliketats, meaning robbers, was first the name given to the Whulwhypums, and then extended to all speaking the same language. For twenty-five years before 1854 they overran the Willamette Valley, but at that time were forced by government to retire to their own country.Tolmie, inLord's Nat., vol. ii., pp. 244-7.[381]Wasco is said to mean 'basin,' and the tribe derives its name, traditionally, from the fact that formerly one of their chiefs, his wife having died, spent much of his time in making cavities or basins in the soft rock for his children to fill with water and pebbles, and thereby amuse themselves.Victor's All over Ogn., pp. 94-5. The word Cayuse is perhaps the FrenchCailloux, 'pebbles.' Called by Tolmie, 'Wyeilats or Kyoose.' He says their language has an affinity to that of the Carriers and Umpquas.Lord's Nat., vol. ii., pp. 249-50. 'Resemble the Walla-Wallas very much.'Kane's Wand., pp. 279-80. 'The imperial tribe of Oregon' claiming jurisdiction over the whole Columbia region.Farnham's Trav., p. 81. The Snakes, Walla-Wallas, and Cayuse meet annually in the Grande Ronde Valley.Thornton's Ogn. and Cal., vol. i., p. 270. 'Individuals of the pure blood are few, the majority being intermixed with the Nez Perces and the Wallah-Wallahs.'Stevens, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1854, pp. 218-19. The region which I give to the Wascos and Cayuses is divided on Hale's map between the Walla-Wallas, Waiilatpu, and Molele.[382]In the interior the 'men are tall, the women are of common stature, and both are well formed.'Parker's Explor. Tour, p. 229. 'Of middle height, slender.'Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., p. 199. The inland tribes of British Columbia, compared with those on the coast, 'are of a better cast, being generally of the middle height.'Id., p. 198. See also p. 206. The Nez Percés and Cayuses 'are almost universally fine-looking, robust men.' In criticising the person of one of that tribe 'one was forcibly reminded of the Apollo Belvidere.'Townsend's Nar., pp. 148, 98. The Klikatat 'stature is low, with light, sinewy limbs.'Id., p. 178; also pp. 158-174. The Walla-Wallas are generally powerful men, at least six feet high, and the Cayuse are still 'stouter and more athletic.'Gairdner, inLond. Geog. Soc., Jour., vol. xi., p. 256. The Umatillas 'may be a superior race to the "Snakes," but I doubt it.'Barnhart, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1862, p. 271. The Salish are 'rather below the average size, but are well knit, muscular, and good-looking.'Stevens, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1854, p. 208. 'Well made and active.'Dunn's Oregon, pp. 311, 327. 'Below the middle hight, with thick-set limbs.'Domenech's Deserts, vol. i., p. 88, vol. ii., pp. 55-6, 64-5. The Cootonais are above the medium height. Very few Shushwaps reach the height of five feet nine inches.Cox's Adven., vol. ii., pp. 155, 376, vol. i., p. 240. See also on physique of the inland nations,Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 321, 340, 356, 359, 382, 527-8, 556-7;Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., p. 475;Dunn, inCal. Farmer,April 26, 1861;San Francisco Herald,June, 1858;Stevens, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., pp. 309, 414;Nicolay's Ogn. Ter., p. 151;Lord's Nat., vol. ii., pp. 105-6, and vol. i., frontispiece, cut of a group of Spokanes.De Smet,Voy., pp. 30, 198;Palmer's Jour., p. 54;Ross' Adven., pp. 127, 294;Stuart's Montana, p. 82.[383]The interior tribes have 'long faces, and bold features, thin lips, wide cheek-bones, smooth skins, and the usual tawny complexion of the American tribes.' 'Features of a less exaggerated harshness' than the coast tribes.Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., p. 198-9. 'Hair and eyes are black, their cheek bones high, and very frequently they have aquiline noses.' 'They wear their hair long, part it upon their forehead, and let it hang in tresses on each side, or down behind.'Parker's Explor. Tour, p. 229. Complexion 'a little fairer than other Indians.'Id.The Okanagans are 'better featured and handsomer in their persons, though darker, than the Chinooks or other Indians along the sea-coast.' 'Teeth white as ivory, well set and regular.' The voices of Walla Wallas, Nez Percés, and Cayuses, are strong and masculine.Ross' Adven., pp. 294, 127. The Flatheads (Nez Percés) are 'the whitest Indians I ever saw.'Gass' Jour., p. 189. The Shushwap 'complexion is darker, and of a more muddy, coppery hue than that of the true Red Indian.'Milton and Cheadle's N. W. Pass., p. 335. The Nez Perces darker than the Tushepaws. Dignified and pleasant features. Would have quite heavy beards if they shaved.Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 340, 356, 359, 527-8, 556-7, 321. The inland natives are an ugly race, with 'broad faces, low foreheads, and rough, coppery and tanned skins.' The Salish 'features are less regular, and their complexion darker' than the Sahaptins.Domenech's Deserts, vol. i., p. 88, vol. ii., pp. 55-6. Teeth of the river tribes worn down by sanded salmon.Anderson, inLord's Nat., vol. ii., p. 228;Kane's Wand., p. 273. Nez Perces and Cayuses 'are almost universally fine looking, robust men, with strong aquiline features, and a much more cheerful cast of countenance than is usual amongst the race. Some of the women might almost be called beautiful, and none that I have seen are homely.' Some very handsome young girls among the Walla Wallas. The Kliketat features are 'regular, though often devoid of expression.'Townsend's Nar., pp. 78, 148, 158, 178. Flatheads 'comparatively very fair in complexion, ... with oval faces, and a mild, and playful expression of countenance.'Dunn's Oregon, p. 311. The Kayuls had long dark hair, and regular features.Coke's Rocky Mountains, p. 304. Cut and description of a Clickitat skull, inMorton's Crania, p. 214, pl. 48. 'The Flatheads are the ugliest, and most of their women are far from being beauties.'Stuart's Montana, p. 82.[384]'The Sahaptin and Wallawallas compress the head, but not so much as the tribes near the coast. It merely serves with them to make the forehead more retreating, which, with the aquiline nose common to these natives, gives to them occasionally, a physiognomy similar to that represented in the hieroglyphical paintings of Central America.'Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., pp. 214, 205. All the Shushwaps flatten the head more or less.Mayne's B. C., p. 303. 'Il est à remarquer que les tribus établies au-dessus de la jonction de la branche sud de la Colombie, et désignées sous le nom de Têtes Plates, ont renoncé depuis longtemps à cet usage.'Mofras,Explor., tom. ii., p. 349. 'A roundhead Klickatat woman would be a pariah.'Winthrop's Canoe and Saddle, p. 204. Nez Percés 'seldom known to flatten the head.'Catlin's N. Am. Ind., vol. ii., p. 108. SeeDomenech's Deserts, vol. ii., pp. 55-6, 64-5;Tolmie, inLord's Nat., vol. ii., pp. 231-2, 249-51;Townsend's Nar., p. 175;Kane's Wand., p. 263;Ind. Aff. Rept., 1854, pp. 207-8;Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., p. 415, with cut. Walla Wallas, Skyuse, and Nez Percés flatten the head and perforate the nose.Farnham's Trav., p. 85;Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 374, 359;Gass' Jour., p. 224.[385]Pickering's Races, inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. ix., pp. 38-9;Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 362, 382-3.[386]The Salish 'profuse in the use of paint.'Stevens, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1854, pp. 207-8, and inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., p. 309. Nez Percés painted in colored stripes.Hines' Voy., p. 173. 'Four Indians (Nez Percés) streaked all over with white mud.'Kane's Wand., p. 291. Walla Walla 'faces painted red.' The Okanagan 'young of both sexes always paint their faces with red and black bars.'Ross' Adven., pp. 127, 294-8. The inland tribes 'appear to have less of the propensity to adorn themselves with painting, than the Indians east of the mountains, but not unfrequently vermilion mixed with red clay, is used not only upon their faces but upon their hair.'Parker's Explor. Tour, p. 229. Red clay for face paint, obtained at Vermilion Forks of the Similkameen River, in B. C.Palmer, inB. C. Papers, vol. iii., p. 84. Pend d'Oreille women rub the face every morning with a mixture of red and brown powder, which is made to stick by a coating of fish-oil.De Smet,Voy., p. 198.[387]The Oakinack 'women wear their hair neatly clubbed on each side of the head behind the ears, and ornamented with double rows of the snowy higua, which are among the Oakinackens called Shet-la-cane; but they keep it shed or divided in front. The men's hair is queued or rolled up into a knot behind the head, and ornamented like that of the women; but in front it falls or hangs down loosely before the face, covering the forehead and the eyes, which causes them every now and then to shake the head, or use the hands to uncover their eyes.'Ross' Adven., pp. 294-5. The head of the Nez Perces not ornamented.Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 341, 321, 351, 377, 528, 532-3;Coke's Rocky Mts., p. 304;Kane's Wand., p. 274.[388]The Ootlashoot women wear 'a long shirt of skin, reaching down to the ancles, and tied round the waist.' Few ornaments. The Nez Percés wear 'the buffalo or elk-skin robe decorated with beads, sea-shells, chiefly mother-of-pearl, attached to an otter-skin collar and hung in the hair.' Leggins and moccasins are painted; a plait of twisted grass is worn round the neck. The women wear their long robe without a girdle, but to it 'are tied little pieces of brass and shells, and other small articles.' 'The dress of the female is indeed more modest, and more studiously so than any we have observed, though the other sex is careless of the indelicacy of exposure.' 'The Sokulk females have no other covering but a truss or piece of leather tied round the hips and then drawn tight between the legs.' Three fourths of the Pisquitpaws 'have scarcely any robes at all.' The Chilluckittequaws use skins of wolves, deer, elk, and wild cats. 'Round their neck is put a strip of some skin with the tail of the animal hanging down over the breast.'Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 321, 340-1, 351, 359, 361, 377, 526, 528, 532-3. Many of the Walla Walla, Nez Percé, and Cayuse females wore robes 'richly garnished with beads, higuas,' etc. The war chief wears as a head-dress the whole skin of a wolf's head, with the ears standing erect. The Okanagans wear in winter long detachable sleeves or mittens of wolf or fox skin, also wolf or bear skin caps when hunting. Men and women dress nearly alike, and are profuse in the use of ornaments.Ross' Adven., p. 127, 294-8;Id.,Fur Hunters, vol. i., p. 306. The Flatheads often change their clothing and clean it with pipe-clay. They have no regular head-dress. From the Yakima to the Okanagan the men go naked, and the women wear only a belt with a slip passing between the legs.Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 133, 148, 240-1, vol. ii., p. 144. Nez Percés better clad than any others, Cayuses well clothed, Walla Wallas naked and half starved.Palmer's Jour., pp. 54, 124, 127-8. At the Dalles, women 'go nearly naked, for they wear little else than what may be termed a breech-cloth, of buckskin, which is black and filthy with dirt.'Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., pp. 409-10, 426, 473. The Kliketat women wear a short pine-bark petticoat tied round the loins.Townsend's Nar., pp. 78, 178, 148. 'Their buffaloe robes and other skins they chiefly procure on the Missouri, when they go over to hunt, as there are no buffaloe in this part of the country and very little other game.'Gass' Jour., pp. 189, 205, 218-19, 295. Tusshepaw 'women wore caps of willow neatly worked and figured.'Irving's Astoria, pp. 315, 317, 319;Id.,Bonneville's Adven., p. 301. The Flathead women wear straw hats, used also for drinking and cooking purposes.De Smet,Voy., pp. 45-7, 198. The Shushwaps wear in wet weather capes of bark trimmed with fur, and reaching to the elbows. Moccasins are more common than on the coast, but they often ride barefoot.Mayne's B. C., p. 301.Parker's Explor. Tour, pp. 229-30;Kane's Wand., p. 264, and cut;Fremont's Ogn. and Cal., pp. 186-7;Stevens, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1854, p. 222;Nicolay's Ogn. Ter., p. 153;Franchère's Nar., p. 268;Dunn's Oregon, p. 311;Coke's Rocky Mts., p. 304;Hunt, inNouvelles Annales des Voy., tom. x., 1821, pp. 74-5, 78.[389]The Sokulk houses 'generally of a square or oblong form, varying in length from fifteen to sixty feet, and supported in the inside by poles or forks about six feet high.' The roof is nearly flat. The Echeloot and Chilluckittequaw houses were of the Chinook style, partially sunk in the ground. The Nez Percés live in houses built 'of straw and mats, in the form of the roof of a house.' One of these 'was one hundred and fifty-six feet long, and about fifteen wide, closed at the ends, and having a number of doors on each side.'Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 340, 351, 369-70, 381-2, 540. Nez Percé dwellings twenty to seventy feet long and from ten to fifteen feet wide; free from vermin. Flathead houses conical but spacious, made of buffalo and moose skins over long poles. Spokane lodges oblong or conical, covered with skins or mats.Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 148, 192, 200. Nez Percé and Cayuse lodges 'composed of ten long poles, the lower ends of which are pointed and driven into the ground; the upper blunt and drawn together at the top by thongs' covered with skins. 'Universally used by the mountain Indians while travelling.' Umatillas live in 'shantys or wigwams of driftwood, covered with buffalo or deer skins.' Klicatats 'in miserable loose hovels.'Townsend's Nar., pp. 104-5, 156, 174. Okanagan winter lodges are long and narrow, 'chiefly of mats and poles, covered over with grass and earth;' dug one or two feet below the surface; look like the roof of a common house set on the ground.Ross' Adven., pp. 313-4. On the Yakima River 'a small canopy, hardly sufficient to shelter a sheep, was found to contain four generations of human beings.'Pickering's Races, inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. ix., pp. 34, 37. On the Clearwater 'there are not more than four lodges in a place or village, and these small camps or villages are eight or ten miles apart.' 'Summer lodges are made of willows and flags, and their winter lodges of split pine.'Gass' Jour., pp. 212, 221, 223. 'At Kettle Falls, the lodges are of rush mats.' 'A flooring is made of sticks, raised three or four feet from the ground, leaving the space beneath it entirely open, and forming a cool, airy, and shady place, in which to hang their salmon.'Kane's Wand., pp. 309, 272-3. The Pend d'Oreilles roll their tent-mats into cylindrical bundles for convenience in traveling.Stevens, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1854, pp. 215, 238, 282.Barnhart, inId., 1862, p. 271. The Shushwap den is warm but 'necessarily unwholesome, and redolent ... of anything but roses.'Anderson, inHist. Mag., vol. vii., p. 77. Yakimas, 'rude huts covered with mats.'Gibbs, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., p. 407. Shushwaps erect rude slants of bark or matting; have no tents or houses.Milton and Cheadle's N. W. Pass., p. 242. From the swamps south of Flatbow Lake, 'the Kootanie Indians obtain the klusquis or thick reed, which is the only article that serves them in the construction of their lodges,' and is traded with other tribes.Sullivan, inPalliser's Explor., p. 15. In winter the Salish cover their mats with earth.Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., p. 207. Flag huts of the Walla Wallas.Farnham's Trav., p. 85;Mullan's Rept., pp. 49-50;Palmer's Jour., p. 61;Coke's Rocky Mts., p. 295;Irving's Astoria, pp. 315, 319;Id.,Bonneville's Adven., p. 301;De Smet,Voy., p. 185;Id.,West. Missions, p. 284;Lord's Nat., vol. ii., pp. 105-6.Hunt, inNouvelles Annales des Voy., tom. x., 1821, pp. 74-5, 79.[390]Natives begin to assemble at Kettle Falls about three weeks before the salmon begin to run; feuds are laid by; horse-racing, gambling, love-making, etc., occupy the assembly; and the medicine-men are busy working charms for a successful season. The fish are cut open, dried on poles over a small fire, and packed in bales. On the Fraser each family or village fishes for itself; near the mouth large gaff-hooks are used, higher up a net managed between two canoes. All the principal Indian fishing-stations on the Fraser are below Fort Hope. For sturgeon a spear seventy to eighty feet long is used. Cut of sturgeon-fishing.Lord's Nat., vol. i., pp. 71-6, 181, 184-6. The Pend d'Oreilles 'annually construct a fence which reaches across the stream, and guides the fish into a weir or rack,' on Clarke River, just above the lake. The Walla Walla 'fisheries at the Dalles and the falls, ten miles above, are the finest on the river.' The Yakima weirs constructed 'upon horizontal spars, and supported by tripods of strong poles erected at short distances apart; two of the logs fronting up stream, and one supporting them below;' some fifty or sixty yards long. The salmon of the Okanagan were 'of a small species, which had assumed a uniform red color.' 'The fishery at the Kettle Falls is one of the most important on the river, and the arrangements of the Indians in the shape of drying-scaffolds and store-houses are on a corresponding scale.'Ind. Aff. Rept., 1854, pp. 214, 223, 231, 233;Gibbs, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., pp. 407-8. The salmon chief at Kettle Falls distributes the fish among the people, every one, even the smallest child, getting an equal share.Kane's Wand., pp. 311-14. On Des Chutes River 'they spear the fish with barbed iron points, fitted loosely by sockets to the ends of poles about eight feet long,' to which they are fastened by a thong about twelve feet long.Abbott, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. vi., p. 90. On the upper Columbia an Indian 'cut off a bit of his leathern shirt, about the size of a small bean; then pulling out two or three hairs from his horse's tail for a line, tied the bit of leather to one end of it, in place of a hook or fly.'Ross' Adven., pp. 132-3. At the mouth of Flatbow River 'a dike of round stones, which runs up obliquely against the main stream, on the west side, for more than one hundred yards in length, resembling the foundation of a wall.' Similar range on the east side, supposed to be for taking fish at low water.Ross' Fur Hunters, vol. ii., pp. 165-6. West of the Rocky Mountains they fish 'with great success by means of a kind of large basket suspended from a long cord.'Domenech's Deserts, vol. ii., pp. 240-1. On Powder River they use the hook as a gaff.Coke's Rocky Mts., p. 283. A Wasco spears three or four salmon of twenty to thirty pounds each in ten minutes.Remy and Brenchley's Jour., vol. ii., p. 506. No salmon are taken above the upper falls of the Columbia.Thornton's Ogn. and Cal., vol. i., p. 392. Walla Walla fish-weirs 'formed of two curtains of small willow switches matted together with withes of the same plant, and extending across the river in two parallel lines, six feet asunder. These are supported by several parcels of poles, ... and are either rolled up or let down at pleasure for a few feet.... A seine of fifteen or eighteen feet in length is then dragged down the river by two persons, and the bottom drawn up against the curtain of willows.'Lewis and Clarke's Trav., p. 532. Make fishing-nets of flax.Parker's Explor. Tour, p. 90. 'The Inland, as well as the Coast, tribes, live to a great extent upon salmon.'Mayne's B. C., p. 242;Nicolay's Ogn. Ter., pp. 152-3. Palouse 'live solely by fishing.'Mullan's Rept., p. 49. Salmon cannot ascend to Coeur d'Alêne Lake.Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., pp. 209-10. Okanagan food 'consists principally of salmon and a small fish which they call carp.'Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., p. 462. The Walla Wallas 'may well be termed the fishermen of the Skyuse camp.'Farnham's Trav., p. 82.[391]The Shushwaps formerly crossed the mountains to the Assinniboine territory. The Okanagans when hunting wear wolf or bear skin caps; there is no bird or beast whose voice they cannot imitate. War and hunting were the Nez Percé occupation; cross the mountains for buffalo.Ross' Fur Hunters, vol. i., pp. 148, 219, 297-8, 305. The chief game of the Nez Percés is the deer, 'and whenever the ground will permit, the favourite hunt is on horseback.'Lewis and Clarke's Trav., p. 555. The Salish live by the chase, on elk, moose, deer, big-horn and bears; make two trips annually, spring to fall, and fall to mid-winter, across the mountains, accompanied by other nations. The Pend d'Oreilles hunt deer in the snow with clubs; have distinct localities for hunting each kind of game. Nez Percés, Flatheads, Coeurs d'Alêne, Spokanes, Pend d'Oreilles, etc., hunt together. Yakimas formerly joined the Flatheads in eastern hunt.Ind. Aff. Rept., 1854, pp. 207-8, 212-15, 218, 225-6. 'Two hunts annually across the mountains—one in April, for the bulls, from which they return in June and July; and another, after about a month's recruit, to kill cows, which have by that time become fat.'Stevens, Gibbs, and Suckley, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., pp. 415, 408, 296-7, vol. xii., p. 134. Kootenais live by the chase principally.Hutchins, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1863, p. 455. Spokanes rather indolent in hunting; hunting deer by fire.Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 197, vol. ii., pp. 46-7. The Kootenais 'seldom hunt;' there is not much to shoot except wild fowl in fall. Trap beaver and carriboeuf on a tributary of the Kootanie River.Palliser's Explor., pp. 10, 15, 73. Flatheads 'follow the buffalo upon the headwaters of Clarke and Salmon rivers.' Nez Percé women accompany the men to the buffalo-hunt.Parker's Explor. Tour, pp. 107, 311. Kootenais cross the mountains for buffalo.Mayne's B. C., p. 297. Coeurs d'Alêne ditto.Mullan's Rept., p. 49. Half of the Nez Percés 'usually make a trip to the buffalo country for three months.'Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., p. 494. Shushwaps 'live by hunting the bighorns, mountain goats, and marmots.'Milton and Cheadle's N. W. Pass., p. 242. Buffalo never pass to west of the Rocky Mountains.Lord's Nat., vol. ii., p. 179;Kane's Wand., p. 328;De Smet,Voy., pp. 31, 45, 144-5;Ind. Life, pp. 23-4, 34-41;Franchère's Nar., pp. 268-9;Hunt, inNouvelles Annales des Voy., tom. x., 1821, pp. 77-82;Stuart, inId., tom. xii., pp. 25, 35-6;Joset, inId., tom. cxxiii., 1849, pp. 334-40.[392]The Kliketats gather and eatpeahay, a bitter root boiled into a jelly;n'poolthla, ground into flour;mamumandseekywa, made into bitter white cakes;kamass;calz, a kind of wild sunflower.Tolmie, inLord's Nat., vol. ii., p. 247. The Flatheads go every spring to Camass Prairie.De Smet,Voy., p. 183. The Kootenais eat kamash and an edible moss.Id.,Missions de l'Orégon, pp. 75-6. 'The Cayooses, Nez Percés, and other warlike tribes assemble (in Yakima Valley) every spring to lay in a stock of the favourite kamass and pelua, or sweet potatoes.'Ross' Fur Hunters, vol. i., p. 19. Quamash, round, onion-shaped, and sweet, eaten by the Nez Percés.Lewis and Clarke's Trav., p. 330. Couse root dug in April or May; camas in June and July.Alvord, inSchoolcraft's Arch., vol. v., p. 656. The Skyuses 'main subsistence is however upon roots.' The Nez Percés eatkamash,cowishor biscuit root,jackap,aisish,quako, etc.Irving's Bonneville's Adven., p. 301, 388. Okanagans live extensively on moss made into bread. The Nez Percés also eat moss.Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., pp. 462, 494. Pend d'Oreilles at the last extremity live on pine-tree moss; also collect camash, bitter-roots, and sugar pears.Stevens, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1854, p. 211, 214-15. 'I never saw any berry in the course of my travels which the Indians scruple to eat, nor have I seen any ill effect from their doing so.'Kane's Wand., p. 327. The Kootenai food in September 'appears to be almost entirely berries; namely, the "sasketoom" of the Crees, a delicious fruit, and a small species of cherry, also a sweet root which they obtain to the southward.'Blakiston, inPalliser's Explor., p. 73. Flatheads digkonah, 'bitter root' in May. It is very nutritious and very bitter.Pahseego, camas, or 'water seego,' is a sweet, gummy, bulbous root.Stuart's Montana, pp. 57-8. Colvilles cut down pines for their moss (alectoria?). Kamas also eaten.Pickering's Races, inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. ix., p. 34. The Shushwaps eat moss and lichens, chiefly the black lichen, orwhyelkine.Mayne's B. C., p. 301;Parker's Explor. Tour, p. 127. The Salish in March and April eatpopkah, an onion-like bulb; in May,spatlam, a root like vermicelli; in June and July,itwha, like roasted chestnuts; in August, wild fruits; in September,marani, a grain.Domenech's Deserts, vol. ii., p. 312.[393]At the Dalles 'during the fishing season, the Indians live entirely on the heads, hearts and offal of the salmon, which they string on sticks, and roast over a small fire.' Besides pine-moss, the Okanagans use the seed of the balsam oriza pounded into meal, calledmielito. 'To this is added thesiffleurs.' Berries made into cakes by the Nez Percés.Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., pp. 410, 462, 494. Quamash, 'eaten either in its natural state, or boiled into a kind of soup, or made into a cake, which is then called pasheco.'Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 330, 353, 365, 369. Women's head-dress serves the Flatheads for cooking, etc.De Smet,Voy., pp. 47, 193-9;Id.,Missions de l'Orégon, pp. 75-6. 'The dog's tongue is the only dish-cloth known' to the Okanagans. Pine-moss cooked, orsquill-ape, will keep for years. 'At their meals they generally eat separately and in succession—man, woman and child.'Ross' Adven., pp. 132-3, 295, 317-18. 'Most of their food is roasted, and they excel in roasting fish.'Parker's Explor. Tour, pp. 231, 107. 'Pine moss, which they boil till it is reduced to a sort of glue or black paste, of a sufficient consistence to take the form of biscuit.'Franchère's Nar., p. 279. Couse tastes like parsnips, is dried and pulverized, and sometimes boiled with meat.Alvord, inSchoolcraft's Arch., vol. v., p. 656. Root bread on the Clearwater tastes like that made of pumpkins.Gass' Jour., pp. 202-3. Kamas after coming from the kiln is 'made into large cakes, by being mashed, and pressed together, and slightly baked in the sun.' White-root, pulverized with stones, moistened and sun-baked, tastes not unlike stale biscuits.Townsend's Nar., pp. 126-7. Camas and sun-flower seed mixed with salmon-heads caused in the eater great distension of the stomach.Remy and Brenchley's Jour., vol. ii., pp. 509-11.Sowete, is the name of the mixture last named, among the Cayuses.Coke's Rocky Mts., p. 310;Ind. Life, p. 41;Stuart's Montana, pp. 57-8;Pickering's Races, inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. ix., p. 34;Kane's Wand., pp. 272-3;Ind. Aff. Rept., 1854, pp. 214-15.[394]Additional notes and references on procuring food. The Okanagans break up winter quarters in February; wander about in small bands till June. Assemble on the river and divide into two parties of men and two of women for fishing and dressing fish, hunting and digging roots, until October; hunt in small parties in the mountains or the interior for four or six weeks; and then go into winter quarters on the small rivers.Ross' Adven., pp. 314-16. Further south on the Columbia plains the natives collect and dry roots until May; fish on the north bank of the river till September, burying the fish; dig camas on the plains till snow falls; and retire to the foot of the mountains to hunt deer and elk through the winter. The Nez Percés catch salmon and dig roots in summer; hunt deer on snow-shoes in winter; and cross the mountains for buffalo in spring. Sokulks live on fish, roots, and antelope. Eneeshur, Echeloots, and Chilluckittequaw, on fish, berries, roots and nuts.Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 444-5, 340-1, 352, 365, 370. Spokanes live on deer, wild fowl, salmon, trout, carp, pine-moss, roots and wild fruit. They have no repugnance to horse-flesh, but never kill horses for food. The Sinapoils live on salmon, camas, and an occasional small deer. The Chaudiere country well stocked with game, fish and fruit.Cox's Adven., vol. i., p. 201, vol. ii., p. 145. The Kayuse live on fish, game, and camass bread.De Smet,Voy., pp. 30-1. 'Ils cultivent avec succès le blé, les patates, les pois et plusieurs autres légumes et fruits.'Id.,Miss. de l'Orégon., p. 67. Pend d'Oreilles; fish, Kamash, and pine-tree moss.Id.,West. Missions, p. 284. 'Whole time was occupied in providing for their bellies, which were rarely full.'Ind. Aff. Rept., 1854, p. 211. Yakimas and Kliketats; Unis or fresh-water muscles, little game, sage-fowl and grouse, kamas, berries, salmon. The Okanagans raise some potatoes.Gibbs, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., pp. 404, 408, 413. Kootenais; fish and wild fowl, berries and pounded meat, have cows and oxen.Palliser's Explor., pp. 10, 72. Palouse; fish, birds, and small animals. Umatillas; fish, sage-cocks, prairie-hares.Lord's Nat., vol. ii., pp. 97, 105-6. Tushepaws would not permit horses or dogs to be eaten.Irving's Astoria, p. 316. Nez Percés; beaver, elk, deer, white bear, and mountain sheep, also steamed roots.Id.,Bonneville's Adven., p. 301. Sahaptin; gather cherries and berries on Clarke River.Gass' Jour., p. 193;Nicolay's Ogn. Ter., p. 151;Hines' Voy., p. 167;Brownell's Ind. Races, pp. 533-5;Stanley's Portraits, pp. 63-71;Catlin's N. Am. Ind., vol. ii., p. 108;Kane's Wand., pp. 263-4;Parker's Explor. Tour, pp. 228-31, 309;Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., p. 474;Hale's Ethnog.,Ib., vol. vi., p. 206.[395]Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 383, 548;Parker's Explor. Tour, pp. 230, 312;Townsend's Nar., p. 148;De Smet,Voy., pp. 46-7, 198;Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 197-9, 358, vol. ii., pp. 155, 373, 375;Coke's Rocky Mts., p. 295;Palmer's Jour., pp. 54, 58, 59.[396]The Okanagan weapon is called aSpampt.Ross' Adven., pp. 318-19;Id.,Fur Hunters, vol. i., pp. 306-8. 'Ils ... faire leurs arcs d'un bois très-élastique, ou de la corne du cerf.'De Smet,Voy., p. 48;Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., p. 488;Stevens, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., p. 405;Townsend's Nar., p. 98;Irving's Astoria, p. 317;Lewis and Clarke's Trav., p. 351;Parker's Explor. Tour, pp. 106-7, 233;Cox's Adven., vol. i., p. 216.[397]Torture of Blackfeet prisoners; burning with a red-hot gun-barrel, pulling out the nails, taking off fingers, scooping out the eyes, scalping, revolting cruelties to female captives. The disputed right of the Flatheads to hunt buffalo at the eastern foot of the mountains is the cause of the long-continued hostility. The wisest and bravest is annually elected war chief. The war chief carries a long whip and secures discipline by flagellation. Except a few feathers and pieces of red cloth, both the Flathead and Kootenai enter battle perfectly naked.Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 232-45, vol. ii., p. 160. The Cayuse and Sahaptin are the most warlike of all the southern tribes. The Nez Percés good warriors, but do not follow war as a profession.Ross' Fur Hunters, vol. i., pp. 185-6, 305, 308-12, vol. ii., pp. 93-6, 139. Among the Okanagans 'the hot bath, council, and ceremony of smoking the great pipe before war, is always religiously observed. Their laws, however, admit of no compulsion, nor is the chief's authority implicitly obeyed on these occasions; consequently, every one judges for himself, and either goes or stays as he thinks proper. With a view, however, to obviate this defect in their system, they have instituted the dance, which answers every purpose of a recruiting service.' 'Every man, therefore, who enters within this ring and joins in the dance ... is in honour bound to assist in carrying on the war.'Id.,Adven.pp. 319-20. Mock battles and military display for the entertainment of white visitors.Hines' Voy., pp. 173-4. The Chilluckittequaws cut off the forefingers of a slain enemy as trophies.Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 375-6. When scouting, 'Flathead chief would ride at full gallop so near the foe as to flap in their faces the eagle's tail streaming behind (from his cap), yet no one dared seize the tail or streamer, it being considered sacrilegious and fraught with misfortune to touch it.'Tolmie, inLord's Nat., vol. ii., p. 238. A thousand Walla Wallas came to the Sacramento River in 1846, to avenge the death of a young chief killed by an American about a year before.Colton's Three Years in Cal., p. 52. One Flathead is said to be equal to four Blackfeet in battle.De Smet,Voy., pp. 31, 49;Dunn's Oregon, pp. 312-13;Gray's Hist. Ogn., pp. 171-4;Parker's Explor. Tour, pp. 233-7;Stanley's Portraits, pp. 65-71;Ind. Life, pp. 23-5;Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., p. 495.[398]White marl clay used to cleanse skin robes, by making it into a paste, rubbing it on the hide and leaving it to dry, after which it is rubbed off. Saddles usually sit uneasily on the horse's back.Parker's Explor. Tour, pp. 106, 232-4. 'Mallet of stone curiously carved' among the Sokulks. Near the Cascades was seen a ladder resembling those used by the whites. The Pishquitpaws used 'a saddle or pad of dressed skin, stuffed with goats' hair.'Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 353, 370, 375, 528. On the Fraser a rough kind of isinglass was at one time prepared and traded to the Hudson Bay Company.Lord's Nat., vol. i., p. 177. 'The Sahaptins still make a kind of vase of lava, somewhat in the shape of a crucible, but very wide; they use it as a mortar for pounding the grain, of which they make cakes.'Domenech's Deserts, vol. ii., pp. 64, 243. (Undoubtedly an error.) Pend d'Oreilles; 'les femmes ... font des nattes de joncs, des paniers, et des chapeaux sans bords.'De Smet,Voy., p. 199. 'Nearly all (the Shushwaps) use the Spanish wooden saddle, which they make with much skill.'Mayne's B. C., pp. 301-2. 'The saddles for women differ in form, being furnished with the antlers of a deer, so as to resemble the high pommelled saddle of the Mexican ladies.'Franchère's Nar., pp. 269-70;Palmer's Jour., p. 129;Irving's Astoria, p. 317, 365;Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 148-9.[399]'The white-pine bark is a very good substitute for birch, but has the disadvantage of being more brittle in cold weather.'Suckley, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., p. 296. Yakima boats are 'simply logs hollowed out and sloped up at the ends, without form or finish.'Gibbs, inId., p. 408. The Flatheads 'have no canoes, but in ferrying streams use their lodge skins, which are drawn up into an oval form by cords, and stretched on a few twigs. These they tow with horses, riding sometimes three abreast.'Stevens, inId., p. 415. In the Kootenai canoe 'the upper part is covered, except a space in the middle.' The length is twenty-two feet, the bottom being a dead level from end to end.Ross' Fur Hunters, vol. ii., pp. 169-70. 'The length of the bottom of the one I measured was twelve feet, the width between the gunwales only seven and one half feet.' 'When an Indian paddles it, he sits at the extreme end, and thus sinks the conical point, which serves to steady the canoe like a fish's tail.'Lord's Nat., vol. ii., pp. 178-9, 255-7. On the Arrow Lakes 'their form is also peculiar and very beautiful. These canoes run the rapids with more safety than those of any other shape.'Kane's Wand., p. 328. SeeDe Smet,Voy., pp. 35, 187;Irving's Astoria, p. 319;Lewis and Clarke's Trav., p. 375;Hector, inPalliser's Explor., p. 27;Stevens, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1854, pp. 208, 214, 223, 238.[400]'The tradition is that horses were obtained from the southward,' not many generations back.Tolmie, inLord's Nat., vol. ii., pp. 247, 177-8. Individuals of the Walla Wallas have over one thousand horses.Warre and Vavasour, inMartin's Hud. Bay, p. 83. Kootenais rich in horses and cattle.Palliser's Explor., pp. 44, 73. Kliketat and Yakima horses sometimes fine, but injured by early usage; deteriorated from a good stock; vicious and lazy.Gibbs, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., p. 405. 'La richesse principale des sauvages de l'ouest consiste en chevaux.'De Smet,Voy., pp. 47, 56. At an assemblage of Walla Wallas, Shahaptains and Kyoots, 'the plains were literally covered with horses, of which there could not have been less than four thousand in sight of the camp.'Ross' Adven., p. 127. The Kootanies about Arrow Lake, or Sinatcheggs have no horses, as the country is not suitable for them.Id.,Fur Hunters, vol. ii., pp. 171-2. Of the Spokanes the 'chief riches are their horses, which they generally obtain in barter from the Nez Percés.'Cox's Adven., vol. i., p. 200. A Skyuse is poor who has but fifteen or twenty horses. The horses are a fine race, 'as large and of better form and more activity than most of the horses of the States.'Farnham's Trav., p. 82. The Flatheads 'are the most northern of the equestrian tribes.'Nicolay's Ogn. Ter., p. 153. Many Nez Percés 'have from five to fifteen hundred head of horses.'Palmer's Jour., pp. 128-9. Indians of the Spokane and Flathead tribes 'own from one thousand to four thousand head of horses and cattle.'Stevens' Address, p. 12. The Nez Percé horses 'are principally of the pony breed; but remarkably stout and long-winded.'Irving's Bonneville's Adven., p. 301;Hastings' Em. Guide, p. 59;Hines' Voy., p. 344;Gass' Jour., p. 295;Parker's Explor. Tour, p. 230.[401]The Chilluckittequaw intercourse seems to be an intermediate trade with the nations near the mouth of the Columbia. The Chopunnish trade for, as well as hunt, buffalo-robes east of the mountains. Course of trade in the Sahaptin county: The plain Indians during their stay on the river from May to September, before they begin fishing, go down to the falls with skins, mats, silk-grass, rushes and chapelell bread. Here they meet the mountain tribes from the Kooskooskie (Clearwater) and Lewis rivers, who bring bear-grass, horses, quamash and a few skins obtained by hunting or by barter from the Tushepaws. At the falls are the Chilluckittequaws, Eneeshurs, Echeloots and Skilloots, the latter being intermediate traders between the upper and lower tribes. These tribes have pounded fish for sale; and the Chinooks bring wappato, sea-fish, berries, and trinkets obtained from the whites. Then the trade begins; the Chopunnish and mountain tribes buy wappato, pounded fish and beads; and the plain Indians buy wappato, horses, beads, etc.Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 341, 382, 444-5. Horse-fairs in which the natives display the qualities of their steeds with a view to sell.Lord's Nat., vol. ii., pp. 86-7. The Oakinacks make trips to the Pacific to trade wild hemp for hiaqua shells and trinkets.Ross' Adven., pp. 291, 323. Trade conducted in silence between a Flathead and Crow.De Smet,Voy., p. 56. Kliketats and Yakimas 'have become to the neighboring tribes what the Yankees were to the once Western States, the traveling retailers of notions.'Gibbs, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., pp. 403, 406. Cayuses, Walla Wallas, and Nez Percés meet in Grande Ronde Valley to trade with the Snakes.Thornton's Ogn. and Cal., vol. i., p. 270;Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., p. 208;Cox's Adven., vol. ii., pp. 88-9, 156;Palmer's Jour., pp. 46, 54;Dunniway's Capt. Gray's Comp., p. 160;Coke's Rocky Mts., p. 294;Mayne's B. C., p. 299;Gass' Jour., p. 205.[402]In calculating time the Okanagans use their fingers, each finger standing for ten; some will reckon to a thousand with tolerable accuracy, but most can scarcely count to twenty.Ross' Adven., p. 324. The Flatheads 'font néanmoins avec précision, sur des écorces d'arbres ou sur des peaux le plan, des pays qu'ils ont parcourus, marquant les distances par journées, demi-journées ou quarts de journées.'De Smet,Voy., p. 205. Count years by snows, months by moons, and days by sleeps. Have names for each number up to ten; then add ten to each; and then add a word to multiply by ten.Parker's Explor. Tour, p. 242. Names of the months in the Pisquouse and Salish languages beginning with January;—'cold, a certain herb, snow-gone, bitter-root, going to root-ground, camass-root, hot, gathering berries, exhausted salmon, dry, house-building, snow.'Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., p. 211. 'Menses computant lunis, ex spkani,solvellunaet dies per ferias. Hebdomadam unicam per splcháskat,septem dies, plures vero hebdomadas per s'chaxèus, id est,vexillumquod a duce maximo qualibet die dominica suspendebatur. Dies antem in novem dividitur partes.'Mengarini,Grammatica Linguae Selicae, p. 120;Sproat's Scenes, p. 270;Lewis and Clarke's Trav., p. 374.[403]The twelve Oakinack tribes 'form, as it were, so many states belonging to the same union, and are governed by petty chiefs.' The chieftainship descends from father to son; and though merely nominal in authority, the chief is rarely disobeyed. Property pays for all crimes.Ross' Adven., pp. 289-94, 322-3, 327. The Chualpays are governed by the 'chief of the earth' and 'chief of the waters,' the latter having exclusive authority in the fishing-season.Kane's Wand., pp. 309-13. The Nez Percés offered a Flathead the position of head chief, through admiration of his qualities.De Smet,Voy., pp. 50, 171. Among the Kalispels the chief appoints his successor, or if he fails to do so, one is elected.De Smet,Western Miss., p. 297. The Flathead war chief carries a long whip, decorated with scalps and feathers to enforce strict discipline. The principal chief is hereditary.Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 241-2, vol. ii., p. 88. The 'camp chief' of the Flatheads as well as the war chief was chosen for his merits.Ind. Life, pp. 28-9. Among the Nez Percés and Wascos 'the form of government is patriarchal. They acknowledge the hereditary principle—blood generally decides who shall be the chief.'Alvord, inSchoolcraft's Arch., vol. v., pp. 652-4. No regularly recognized chief among the Spokanes, but an intelligent and rich man often controls the tribe by his influence.Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., pp. 475-6. 'The Salish can hardly be said to have any regular form of government.'Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., pp. 207-8. Every winter the Cayuses go down to the Dalles to hold a council over the Chinooks 'to ascertain their misdemeanors and punish them therefor by whipping'!Farnham's Trav., p. 81-2. Among the Salish 'criminals are sometimes punished by banishment from their tribe.' 'Fraternal union and the obedience to the chiefs are truly admirable.'Domenech's Deserts, vol. ii., pp. 343-4;Hines' Voy., p. 157;Stanley's Portraits, p. 63;Dunn's Oregon, pp. 311-12;White's Oregon, p. 189;Pickering's Races, inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. ix., p. 108;Joset, inNouvelles Annales des Voy., tom. cxxiii., 1849, pp. 334-40.[404]'Slavery is common with all the tribes.'Warre and Vavasour, inMartin's Hud. B., p. 83. Sahaptins always make slaves of prisoners of war. The Cayuses have many.Alvord, inSchoolcraft's Arch., vol. v., p. 654;Palmer's Jour., p. 56. Among the Okanagans 'there are but few slaves ... and these few are adopted as children, and treated in all respects as members of the family.'Ross' Adven., p. 320. The inland tribes formerly practiced slavery, but long since abolished it.Parker's Explor. Tour, p. 247. 'Not practised in the interior.'Mayne's B. C., p. 243. Not practiced by the Shushwaps.Anderson, inHist. Mag., vol. vii., p. 78.[405]Each Okanagan 'family is ruled by the joint will or authority of the husband and wife, but more particularly by the latter.' Wives live at different camps among their relatives; one or two being constantly with the husband. Brawls constantly occur when several wives meet. The women are chaste, and attached to husband and children. At the age of fourteen or fifteen the young man pays his addresses in person to the object of his love, aged eleven or twelve. After the old folks are in bed, he goes to her wigwam, builds a fire, and if welcome the mother permits the girl to come and sit with him for a short time. These visits are several times repeated, and he finally goes in the day-time with friends and his purchase money.Ross' Adven., pp. 295-302. The Spokane husband joins his wife's tribe; women are held in great respect; and much affection is shown for children. Among the Nez Percés both men and women have the power of dissolving the marriage tie at pleasure.Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., pp. 410, 475-6, 486, 495. The Coeurs d'Alêne 'have abandoned polygamy.'Stevens, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., pp. 149, 309;Gibbs, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., p. 406. Pend d'Oreille women less enslaved than in the mountains, but yet have much heavy work, paddle canoes, etc. Generally no marriage among savages.De Smet,Voy., pp. 198-9, 210. The Nez Percés generally confine themselves to two wives, and rarely marry cousins. No wedding ceremony.Alvord, inSchoolcraft's Arch., vol. v., p. 655. Polygamy not general on the Fraser; and unknown to Kootenais.Cox's Adven., vol. ii., pp. 155, 379, vol. i., pp. 256-9. Nez Percés have abandoned polygamy.Palmer's Jour., pp. 129, 56. Flathead women do everything but hunt and fight.Ind. Life, p. 41. Flathead women 'by no means treated as slaves, but, on the contrary, have much consideration and authority.'Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., p. 207. 'Rarely marry out of their own nation,' and do not like their women to marry whites.Dunn's Oregon, pp. 313-14. The Sokulk men 'are said to content themselves with a single wife, with whom ... the husband shares the labours of procuring subsistence much more than is usual among savages.'Lewis and Clarke's Trav., p. 351;Dunniway's Capt. Gray's Comp., p. 161;Gray's Hist. Ogn., p. 171;Tolmie and Anderson, inLord's Nat., vol. ii., pp. 231-5;Ind. Aff. Rept., 1854, p. 208;De Smet's West. Miss., p. 289.
[350]For description of the various roots and berries used by the Chinooks as food, seeLewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 450-5.
[351]The Multnomahs 'are very fond of cold, hot, and vapour baths, which are used at all seasons, and for the purpose of health as well as pleasure. They, however, add a species of bath peculiar to themselves, by washing the whole body with urine every morning.'Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 509, 409. Eat insects from each other's head, for the animals bite them, and they claim the right to bite back.Kane's Wand., pp. 183-4.
[352]Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 323-4; vol. ii., p. 13;Irving's Astoria, pp. 324, 338;Ross' Adven., p. 90;Kane's Wand., p. 189;Catlin's N. Am. Ind., vol. ii., p. 113, pl. 210½;Dunn's Oregon, pp. 124-5;Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 429-31, 509;Hines' Ogn., p. 110;Franchère's Nar., p. 253;Emmons, inSchoolcraft's Arch., vol. iii., pp. 206-7, 215-16, 468.
[353]'When the conflict is postponed till the next day, ... they keep up frightful cries all night long, and, when they are sufficiently near to understand each other, defy one another by menaces, railleries, and sarcasms, like the heroes of Homer and Virgil.'Franchère's Nar., pp. 251-4;Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 322-3;Dunn's Oregon, p. 124;Irving's Astoria, pp. 340-1;Ross' Fur Hunters, vol. i., pp. 88, 105-8;Domenech's Deserts, vol. ii., p. 354;Stanley's Portraits, pp. 61-2;Foster's Pre-Hist. Races, p. 232.
[354]Pickering makes 'the substitution of the water-proof basket, for the square wooden bucket of the straits' the chief difference between this and the Sound Family.Races, inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. ix., p. 25;Emmons, inSchoolcraft's Arch., vol. iii., p. 206;Vancouver's Voy., vol. ii., p. 77;Ross' Adven., p. 92;Domenech's Deserts, vol. ii., pp. 241, 260;Franchère's Nar., pp. 248-9;Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 432-5;Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 329-32;Dunn's Oregon, pp. 138-9;Catlin's N. Am. Ind., vol. ii., p. 113, pl. 210½, showing cradle, ladles, Wapato diggers,Pautomaugons, or war clubs and pipes.Parker's Explor. Tour, pp. 248-9;Kane's Wand., pp. 184-5, 188-9.
[355]Swan's N. W. Coast, pp. 161-3;Parker's Explor. Tour, p. 253.
[356]Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 433-5. 'Hollowed out of the cedar by fire, and smoothed off with stone axes.'Kane's Wand., p. 189. At Cape Orford 'their shape much resembled that of a butcher's tray.'Vancouver's Voy., vol. i., p. 204. 'A human face or a white-headed eagle, as large as life, carved on the prow, and raised high in front.'Ross' Adven., pp. 97-8. 'In landing they put the canoe round, so as to strike the beach stern on.'Franchère's Nar., p. 246. 'The larger canoes on the Columbia are sometimes propelled by short oars.'Emmons, inSchoolcraft's Arch., vol. iii., p. 218. 'Finest canoes in the world.'Wilkes' Hist. Ogn., p. 107;Parker's Explor. Tour, p. 252;Dunn's Oregon, pp. 121-2;Swan's N. W. Coast, pp. 79-82, with cuts;Irving's Astoria, pp. 86, 324;Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 325-7;Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., p. 217;Domenech's Deserts, vol. ii., pp. 276-7;Brownell's Ind. Races, pp. 535-7;Gass' Jour., p. 279.
[357]Dried and pounded salmon, prepared by a method not understood except at the falls, formed a prominent article of commerce, both with coast and interior nations.Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 444-7, 413. A fathom of the largest hiaqua shells is worth about ten beaver-skins. A dying man gave his property to his intimate friends 'with a promise on their part to restore them if he recovered.'Franchère's Nar., pp. 244-5, 137;Ross' Adven., pp. 87-8, 95-6;Swan's N. W. Coast, p. 166;Irving's Astoria, p. 322;Dunn's Oregon, pp. 133-4;Cox's Adven., vol. i., p. 333;Thornton's Ogn. and Cal., vol. i., p. 392;Kane's Wand., p. 185;Domenech's Deserts, vol. ii., p. 250;Gass' Jour., p. 227;Morton's Crania Am., pp. 202-14;Fédix,l'Orégon, pp. 44-5.
[358]Have no idea of drawing maps on the sand. 'Their powers of computation ... are very limited.'Emmons, inSchoolcraft's Arch., vol. iii., pp. 205, 207;Lewis and Clarke's Trav., p. 493;Ross' Adven., pp. 88-9, 98;Kane's Wand., p. 185.
[359]The Willamette tribes, nine in number, were under four principal chiefs.Ross' Adven., pp. 235-6, 88, 216. Casanov, a famous chief at Fort Vancouver employed a hired assassin to remove obnoxious persons.Kane's Wand., pp. 173-6;Franchère's Nar., p. 250;Irving's Astoria, pp. 88, 340;Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 322-3;Parker's Explor. Tour, p. 253;Lewis and Clarke's Trav., p. 443.
[360]'Live in the same dwelling with their masters, and often intermarry with those who are free.'Parker's Explor. Tour, pp. 197, 247. 'Treat them with humanity while their services are useful.'Franchère's Nar., p. 241. Treated with great severity.Kane's Wand., pp. 181-2;Lewis and Clarke's Trav., p. 447;Ross' Adven., pp. 92-3;Irving's Astoria, p. 88;Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 305-6;Dunn's Oregon, pp. 129-30;Fitzgerald's Hud. B. Co., pp. 196-7;Stanley's Portraits, pp. 61-2.
[361]Swan's N. W. Coast, pp. 161, 171;Emmons, inSchoolcraft's Arch., vol. iii., pp. 211-2. 'In proportion as we approach the rapids from the sea, female impurity becomes less perceptible; beyond this point it entirely ceases.'Cox's Adven., vol. ii., pp. 134, 159; vol. i., pp. 366-7, 318;Wells, inHarper's Mag., vol. xiii., p. 602;Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 439-43. Ceremonies of a widow in her endeavors to obtain a new husband.Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. v., p. 124;Ross' Adven., pp. 88, 92-3;Franchère's Nar., pp. 245, 254-5;Hunter's Cap., p. 70;Hines' Voy., p. 113;Domenech's Deserts, vol. ii., pp. 16, 294-5;Irving's Astoria, p. 340;Dunn's Oregon, pp. 132-3;Lord's Nat., vol. ii., pp. 231-2;Kane's Wand., pp. 175-7, 182;Gass' Jour., p. 275;Strickland's Hist. Missions, pp. 139-40.
[362]'I saw neither musical instruments, nor dancing, among the Oregon tribes.'Pickering's Races, inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. ix., p. 43. 'All extravagantly fond of ardent spirits, and are not particular what kind they have, provided it is strong, and gets them drunk quickly.'Swan's N. W. Coast, pp. 155-8, 197-202. 'Not addicted to intemperance.'Franchère's Nar., p. 242. At gambling 'they will cheat if they can, and pride themselves on their success.'Kane's Wand., pp. 190, 196. Seldom cheat, and submit to their losses with resignation.Cox's Adven., vol. i., p. 332;Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 410, 443-4;Wells, inHarper's Mag., vol. xiii., p. 601, and cut of dance at Coos Bay;Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., pp. 392-3; vol. v., p. 123;Vancouver's Voy., vol. ii., p. 77;Ross' Fur Hunters, vol. i., pp. 90-4, 112-13;Dunn's Oregon, pp. 114-15, 121, 125-8, 130-1;Parker's Explor. Tour, pp. 247-8;Domenech's Deserts, vol. ii., p. 242;Irving's Astoria, p. 341;Palmer's Jour., p. 86.
[363]Tolmie, inLord's Nat., vol. ii., p. 248;Gass' Jour., pp. 232, 275;Dunn's Oregon, pp. 123-8;Kane's Wand., pp. 205, 255-6;Swan's N. W. Coast, p. 267;Schoolcraft's Arch., vol. v., p. 654.
[364]Doctors, if unsuccessful, are sometimes subjected to rough treatment, but rarely killed, except when they have previously threatened the life of the patient.Swan's N. W. Coast, pp. 176-185. At the Dalles an old woman, whose incantations had caused a fatal sickness, was beheaded by a brother of the deceased.Ind. Life, pp. 173-4, 142-3. Whole tribes have been almost exterminated by the small-pox.Stevens, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., pp. 82, 179. Venereal disease prevalent, and a complete cure is never effected.Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 440, 508. Generally succeed in curing venereal disease even in its worst stage.Ross' Adven., pp. 96-9. The unsuccessful doctor killed, unless able to buy his life.Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., p. 394. Flatheads more subject to apoplexy than others.Domenech's Deserts, vol. i., p. 87;Cox's Adven., vol. i., p. 126-7, 307, 312-15, 335, vol. ii., pp. 94-5;Townsend's Nar., pp. 158, 178-9;Franchère's Nar., p. 250;Dunn's Oregon, pp. 115-9, 127;Thornton's Ogn. and Cal., vol. ii., p. 53;Parker's Explor. Tour, pp. 176, 191-2;Fitzgerald's Hud. B. Co., pp. 171-2;Strickland's Hist. Missions, pp. 139-40.
[365]A chief on the death of his daughter 'had an Indian slave bound hand and foot, and fastened to the body of the deceased, and enclosed the two in another mat, leaving out the head of the living one. The Indian then took the canoe and carried it to a high rock and left it there. Their custom is to let the slave live for three days; then another slave is compelled to strangle the victim by a cord.'Letter, inSchoolcraft's Arch., vol. ii., p. 71. See also vol. iii., pp. 217-18; vol. vi., pp. 616-23, with plate; vol. v., p. 655. 'The emblem of a squaw's grave is generally a camass-root digger, made of a deer's horns, and fastened on the end of a stick.'Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. v., pp. 233-4, vol. iv., p. 394. 'I believe I saw as many as an hundred canoes at one burying place of the Chinooks.'Gass' Jour., p. 274. 'Four stakes, interlaced with twigs and covered with brush,' filled with dead bodies.Abbott, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. vi., p. 88. At Coos Bay, 'formerly the body was burned, and the wife of the corpse killed and interred.' Now the body is sprinkled with sand and ashes, the ankles are bent up and fastened to the neck; relatives shave their heads and put the hair on the body with shells and roots, and the corpse is then buried and trampled on by the whole tribe.Wells, inHarper's Mag., vol. xiii., p. 602. 'The canoe-coffins were decorated with rude carved work.'Vancouver's Voy., vol. ii., p. 54. Strangers are paid to join in the lamentations.Ross' Adven., p. 97. Children who die during the head-flattening process are set afloat in their cradles upon the surface of some sacred pool, where the bodies of the old are also placed in their canoes.Catlin's N. Am. Ind., vol. ii., p. 111. On burial and mourning see also,Swan's N. W. Coast, pp. 72-3, 13, 186-9, with cut of canoe on platform.Mofras' Explor., vol. ii., p. 355, and pl. 18 ofAtlas;Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 423, 429, 509;Kane's Wand., pp. 176-8, 181, 202-5;Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 124-5, 335-6, vol. ii., p. 157;Parker's Explor. Tour, pp. 144, 151-2;Thornton's Ogn. and Cal., vol. i., pp. 281-2, vol. ii., p. 53;Belcher's Voy., vol. i., p. 292;Domenech's Deserts, vol. i., p. 255;Dunn's Oregon, pp. 119-20, 131-2;Nicolay's Ogn. Ter., pp. 149-50;Fremont's Ogn. and Cal., p. 186;Irving's Astoria, p. 99;Franchère's Nar., p. 106;Palmer's Jour., p. 87;Ind. Life, p. 210;Townsend's Nar., p. 180.
[366]'The clumsy thief, who is detected, is scoffed at and despised.'Dunn's Oregon, pp. 130-1, 114. 'The Kalapuya, like the Umkwa, ... are more regular and quiet' than the inland tribes, 'and more cleanly, honest and moral than the' coast tribes. The Chinooks are a quarrelsome, thievish, and treacherous people.Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., pp. 217, 215, 198, 204. 'A rascally, thieving set.'Gass' Jour., p. 304. 'When well treated, kind and hospitable.'Swan's N. W. Coast, pp. 215, 110, 152. At Cape Orford 'pleasing and courteous deportment ... scrupulously honest.'Vancouver's Voy., vol. i., pp. 204-5. Laziness is probably induced by the ease with which they obtain food.Kane's Wand., pp. 181, 185. 'Crafty and intriguing.' Easily irritated, but a trifle will appease him.Ross' Fur Hunters, vol. i., p. 61, 70-1, 77, 88, 90-1, 124-5, 235-6. 'They possess in an eminent degree, the qualities opposed to indolence, improvidence, and stupidity: the chiefs above all, are distinguished for their good sense and intelligence. Generally speaking, they have a ready intellect and a tenacious memory.' 'Rarely resist the temptation of stealing' white men's goods.Franchère's Nar., pp. 241-2, 261. Loquacious, never gay, knavish, impertinent.Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 416, 441-2, 504, 523-4. 'Thorough-bred hypocrites and liars.' 'The Killymucks the most roguish.' Industry, patience, sobriety and ingenuity are their chief virtues; thieving, lying, incontinence, gambling and cruelty may be classed among their vices.Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 115, 131, 296-7, 302, 304-5, 321, vol. ii., p. 133. At Wishiam 'they were a community of arrant rogues and freebooters.'Irving's Astoria, pp. 322, 342. 'Lying is very common; thieving comparatively rare.'White's Ogn., p. 207. 'Do not appear to possess a particle of natural good feeling.'Townsend's Nar., p. 183. At Coos Bay 'by no means the fierce and warlike race found further to the northward.'Wells, inHarper's Mag., vol. xiii., p. 601. Umqua and Coose tribes are naturally industrious; the Suislaws the most advanced; the Alcea not so enterprising.Sykes, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1860, p. 215. Calapooias, a poor, cowardly, and thievish race.Miller, inId., 1857, p. 364;Nicolay's Ogn. Ter., p. 151;Domenech's Deserts, vol. i., p. 87, vol. ii., pp. 16, 36;Warre and Vavasour, inMartin's Hud. B., p. 83;Palmer's Jour., pp. 84, 105;Parker's Explor. Tour, pp. 249-50;Ind. Life, pp. 1-4, 210;Fitzgerald's Vanc. Isl., p. 196;Schoolcraft's Arch., vol. iii., p. 207, etc.
[367]'They all resemble each other in general characteristics.'Parker's Explor. Tour, p. 229. Shushwaps and Salish all one race.Mayne's B. C., p. 296-7. 'The Indians of the interior are, both physically and morally, vastly superior to the tribes of the coast.'Id., p. 242. 'The Kliketat near Mount Rainier, the Walla-Wallas, and the Okanagan ... speak kindred dialects.'Ludewig,Ab. Lang., p. 170. The best-supported opinion is that the inland were of the same original stock with the lower tribes.Dunn's Oregon, p. 316. 'On leaving the verge of the Carrier country, near Alexandria, a marked change is at once perceptible.'Anderson, inHist. Mag., vol. vii., p. 77. Inland tribes differ widely from the piscatorial tribes.Ross' Adven., p. 127. 'Those residing near the Rocky Mountains ... are and always have been superior races to those living on the lower Columbia.'Alvord, inSchoolcraft's Arch., vol. v., p. 654. 'I was particularly struck with their vast superiority (on the Similkameen River, Lat. 49° 30´, Long. 120° 30´) in point of intelligence and energy to the Fish Indians on the Fraser River, and in its neighbourhood.'Palmer, inB. C. Papers, vol. iii., p. 84. Striking contrast noted in passing up the Columbia.Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., p. 199.
[368]'The Shewhapmuch ... who compose a large branch of the Saeliss family,' known asNicute-much—corrupted by the Canadians into Couteaux—below the junction of the Fraser and Thompson.Anderson, inHist. Mag., vol. vii., p. 76-7. Atnahs is their name in the Takali language, and signifies 'strangers.' 'Differ so little from their southern neighbors, the Salish, as to render a particular description unnecessary.'Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., p. 205. They were called by Mackenzie the Chin tribe, according toPrichard's Researches, vol. v., p. 427, but Mackenzie's Chin tribe was north of the Atnahs, being the Nagailer tribe of the Carriers. SeeMackenzie's Voy., pp. 257-8, and map.
[369]'About Okanagan, various branches of the Carrier tribe.'Nicolay's Ogn. Ter., p. 143. 'Okanagans, on the upper part of Frazer's River.'Ludewig,Ab. Lang., p. 170.
[370]Also known as Flat-bows. 'The poorest of the tribes composing the Flathead nation.'McCormick, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1867, p. 211. 'Speaking a language of their own, it is not easy to imagine their origin; but it appears probable that they once belonged to some more southern tribe, from which they became shut off by the intervention of larger tribes.'Mayne's B. C., p. 297. 'In appearance, character, and customs, they resemble more the Indians east of the Rocky Mountains than those of Lower Oregon.'Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., p. 205. 'Les Arcs-à-Plats, et les Koetenais sont connus dans le pays sous le nom de Skalzi.'De Smet,Miss. de l'Orégon, p. 80.
[371]The origin of the name Flathead, as applied to this nation, is not known, as they have never been known to flatten the head. 'The mass of the nation consists of persons who have more or less of the blood of the Spokanes, Pend d'Oreilles, Nez Perces, and Iroquois.'Stevens, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1854, p. 207;Pac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., p. 150;Catlin's N. Am. Ind., vol. ii., p. 108;Stuart's Montana, p. 82. Gass applied the name apparently to tribes on the Clearwater of the Sahaptin family.Jour., p. 224.
[372]Also calledKalispelmsandPonderas. The Upper Pend d'Oreilles consist of a number of wandering families of Spokanes, Kalispelms proper, and Flatheads.Suckley, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., p. 294;Stevens, inId., p. 149;Stevens, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1854, p. 210. 'Very similar in manners, etc., to the Flatheads, and form one people with them.'De Smet,Miss. de l'Orégon, p. 32.
[373]The native name, according to Hale, isSkitsuish, and Coeur d'Alêne, 'Awl heart,' is a nickname applied from the circumstance that a chief used these words to express his idea of the Canadian traders' meanness.Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., p. 210.
[374]Quiarlpi, 'Basket People,'Chaudieres, 'Kettles,'Kettle Falls,Chualpays,Skoielpoi, andLakes, are some of the names applied to these bands.
[375]'Ils s'appellent entre eux les Enfants du Soleil, dans leur langue Spokane.'De Smet,Miss. de l'Orégon, p. 31. 'Differing very little from the Indians at Colville, either in their appearance, habits, or language.'Kane's Wand., p. 307.
[376]So much intermarried with the Yakamas that they have almost lost their nationality.'Stevens, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1854, p. 236.
[377]'Pierced Noses,' so named by the Canadians, perhaps from the nasal ornaments of the first of the tribe seen, although the custom of piercing the nose has never been known to be prevalent with this people. 'Generally known and distinguished by the name of "black robes," in contradistinction to those who live on fish.' Named Nez Perces from the custom of boring the nose to receive a white shell, like the fluke of an anchor.Ross' Fur Hunters, vol. i., pp. 305, 185-6. 'There are two tribes of the Pierced-Nose Indians, the upper and the lower.Brownell's Ind. Races, pp. 533-5. 'Though originally the same people, their dialect varies very perceptibly from that of the Tushepaws.'Lewis and Clarke's Trav., p. 341. CalledThoiga-rik-kah,Tsoi-gah, 'Cowse-eaters,' by the Snakes. 'Ten times better off to-day than they were then'—'a practical refutation of the time-honored lie, that intercourse with whites is an injury to Indians.'Stuart's Montana, pp. 76-7. 'In character and appearance, they resemble more the Indians of the Missouri than their neighbors, the Salish.'Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., p. 212;Domenech's Deserts, vol. ii., p. 54.
[378]'La tribu Paloose appartient à la nation des Nez-percés et leur ressemble sous tous les rapports.'De Smet,Voy., p. 31.
[379]The name comes from that of the river. It should be pronounced Wălă-Wălă, very short.Pandosy's Gram., p. 9. 'Descended from slaves formerly owned and liberated by the Nez Perces.'Parker's Explor. Tour, p. 247. 'Not unlike the Pierced-Noses in general appearance, language, and habits.'Brownell's Ind. Races, pp. 533-5. Parts of three different nations at the confluence of the Snake and Columbia.Gass' Jour., pp. 218-19, 'None of the Indians have any permanent habitations' on the south bank of the Columbia about and above the Dalles.Lewis and Clarke's Trav., p. 365. 'Generally camping in winter on the north side of the river.'Ind. Aff. Rept., 1854, p. 223.
[380]The name Yakima is a word meaning 'Black Bear' in the Walla Walla dialect. They are called Klikatats west of the mountains.Gibbs, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., p. 407. 'The Klikatats and Yakimas, in all essential peculiarities of character, are identical, and their intercourse is constant.'Id., p. 403, andStevens, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1854, p. 225. 'Pshawanwappam bands, usually called Yakamas.' The name signifies 'Stony Ground.'Gibbs, inPandosy's Gram., p. vii. 'Roil-roil-pam, is the Klikatat country.' 'Its meaning is "the Mouse country."'Id.The Yakima valley is a great national rendezvous for these and surrounding nations.Ross' Fur Hunters, vol. i., pp. 19, 21. Kliketats, meaning robbers, was first the name given to the Whulwhypums, and then extended to all speaking the same language. For twenty-five years before 1854 they overran the Willamette Valley, but at that time were forced by government to retire to their own country.Tolmie, inLord's Nat., vol. ii., pp. 244-7.
[381]Wasco is said to mean 'basin,' and the tribe derives its name, traditionally, from the fact that formerly one of their chiefs, his wife having died, spent much of his time in making cavities or basins in the soft rock for his children to fill with water and pebbles, and thereby amuse themselves.Victor's All over Ogn., pp. 94-5. The word Cayuse is perhaps the FrenchCailloux, 'pebbles.' Called by Tolmie, 'Wyeilats or Kyoose.' He says their language has an affinity to that of the Carriers and Umpquas.Lord's Nat., vol. ii., pp. 249-50. 'Resemble the Walla-Wallas very much.'Kane's Wand., pp. 279-80. 'The imperial tribe of Oregon' claiming jurisdiction over the whole Columbia region.Farnham's Trav., p. 81. The Snakes, Walla-Wallas, and Cayuse meet annually in the Grande Ronde Valley.Thornton's Ogn. and Cal., vol. i., p. 270. 'Individuals of the pure blood are few, the majority being intermixed with the Nez Perces and the Wallah-Wallahs.'Stevens, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1854, pp. 218-19. The region which I give to the Wascos and Cayuses is divided on Hale's map between the Walla-Wallas, Waiilatpu, and Molele.
[382]In the interior the 'men are tall, the women are of common stature, and both are well formed.'Parker's Explor. Tour, p. 229. 'Of middle height, slender.'Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., p. 199. The inland tribes of British Columbia, compared with those on the coast, 'are of a better cast, being generally of the middle height.'Id., p. 198. See also p. 206. The Nez Percés and Cayuses 'are almost universally fine-looking, robust men.' In criticising the person of one of that tribe 'one was forcibly reminded of the Apollo Belvidere.'Townsend's Nar., pp. 148, 98. The Klikatat 'stature is low, with light, sinewy limbs.'Id., p. 178; also pp. 158-174. The Walla-Wallas are generally powerful men, at least six feet high, and the Cayuse are still 'stouter and more athletic.'Gairdner, inLond. Geog. Soc., Jour., vol. xi., p. 256. The Umatillas 'may be a superior race to the "Snakes," but I doubt it.'Barnhart, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1862, p. 271. The Salish are 'rather below the average size, but are well knit, muscular, and good-looking.'Stevens, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1854, p. 208. 'Well made and active.'Dunn's Oregon, pp. 311, 327. 'Below the middle hight, with thick-set limbs.'Domenech's Deserts, vol. i., p. 88, vol. ii., pp. 55-6, 64-5. The Cootonais are above the medium height. Very few Shushwaps reach the height of five feet nine inches.Cox's Adven., vol. ii., pp. 155, 376, vol. i., p. 240. See also on physique of the inland nations,Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 321, 340, 356, 359, 382, 527-8, 556-7;Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., p. 475;Dunn, inCal. Farmer,April 26, 1861;San Francisco Herald,June, 1858;Stevens, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., pp. 309, 414;Nicolay's Ogn. Ter., p. 151;Lord's Nat., vol. ii., pp. 105-6, and vol. i., frontispiece, cut of a group of Spokanes.De Smet,Voy., pp. 30, 198;Palmer's Jour., p. 54;Ross' Adven., pp. 127, 294;Stuart's Montana, p. 82.
[383]The interior tribes have 'long faces, and bold features, thin lips, wide cheek-bones, smooth skins, and the usual tawny complexion of the American tribes.' 'Features of a less exaggerated harshness' than the coast tribes.Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., p. 198-9. 'Hair and eyes are black, their cheek bones high, and very frequently they have aquiline noses.' 'They wear their hair long, part it upon their forehead, and let it hang in tresses on each side, or down behind.'Parker's Explor. Tour, p. 229. Complexion 'a little fairer than other Indians.'Id.The Okanagans are 'better featured and handsomer in their persons, though darker, than the Chinooks or other Indians along the sea-coast.' 'Teeth white as ivory, well set and regular.' The voices of Walla Wallas, Nez Percés, and Cayuses, are strong and masculine.Ross' Adven., pp. 294, 127. The Flatheads (Nez Percés) are 'the whitest Indians I ever saw.'Gass' Jour., p. 189. The Shushwap 'complexion is darker, and of a more muddy, coppery hue than that of the true Red Indian.'Milton and Cheadle's N. W. Pass., p. 335. The Nez Perces darker than the Tushepaws. Dignified and pleasant features. Would have quite heavy beards if they shaved.Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 340, 356, 359, 527-8, 556-7, 321. The inland natives are an ugly race, with 'broad faces, low foreheads, and rough, coppery and tanned skins.' The Salish 'features are less regular, and their complexion darker' than the Sahaptins.Domenech's Deserts, vol. i., p. 88, vol. ii., pp. 55-6. Teeth of the river tribes worn down by sanded salmon.Anderson, inLord's Nat., vol. ii., p. 228;Kane's Wand., p. 273. Nez Perces and Cayuses 'are almost universally fine looking, robust men, with strong aquiline features, and a much more cheerful cast of countenance than is usual amongst the race. Some of the women might almost be called beautiful, and none that I have seen are homely.' Some very handsome young girls among the Walla Wallas. The Kliketat features are 'regular, though often devoid of expression.'Townsend's Nar., pp. 78, 148, 158, 178. Flatheads 'comparatively very fair in complexion, ... with oval faces, and a mild, and playful expression of countenance.'Dunn's Oregon, p. 311. The Kayuls had long dark hair, and regular features.Coke's Rocky Mountains, p. 304. Cut and description of a Clickitat skull, inMorton's Crania, p. 214, pl. 48. 'The Flatheads are the ugliest, and most of their women are far from being beauties.'Stuart's Montana, p. 82.
[384]'The Sahaptin and Wallawallas compress the head, but not so much as the tribes near the coast. It merely serves with them to make the forehead more retreating, which, with the aquiline nose common to these natives, gives to them occasionally, a physiognomy similar to that represented in the hieroglyphical paintings of Central America.'Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., pp. 214, 205. All the Shushwaps flatten the head more or less.Mayne's B. C., p. 303. 'Il est à remarquer que les tribus établies au-dessus de la jonction de la branche sud de la Colombie, et désignées sous le nom de Têtes Plates, ont renoncé depuis longtemps à cet usage.'Mofras,Explor., tom. ii., p. 349. 'A roundhead Klickatat woman would be a pariah.'Winthrop's Canoe and Saddle, p. 204. Nez Percés 'seldom known to flatten the head.'Catlin's N. Am. Ind., vol. ii., p. 108. SeeDomenech's Deserts, vol. ii., pp. 55-6, 64-5;Tolmie, inLord's Nat., vol. ii., pp. 231-2, 249-51;Townsend's Nar., p. 175;Kane's Wand., p. 263;Ind. Aff. Rept., 1854, pp. 207-8;Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., p. 415, with cut. Walla Wallas, Skyuse, and Nez Percés flatten the head and perforate the nose.Farnham's Trav., p. 85;Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 374, 359;Gass' Jour., p. 224.
[385]Pickering's Races, inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. ix., pp. 38-9;Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 362, 382-3.
[386]The Salish 'profuse in the use of paint.'Stevens, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1854, pp. 207-8, and inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., p. 309. Nez Percés painted in colored stripes.Hines' Voy., p. 173. 'Four Indians (Nez Percés) streaked all over with white mud.'Kane's Wand., p. 291. Walla Walla 'faces painted red.' The Okanagan 'young of both sexes always paint their faces with red and black bars.'Ross' Adven., pp. 127, 294-8. The inland tribes 'appear to have less of the propensity to adorn themselves with painting, than the Indians east of the mountains, but not unfrequently vermilion mixed with red clay, is used not only upon their faces but upon their hair.'Parker's Explor. Tour, p. 229. Red clay for face paint, obtained at Vermilion Forks of the Similkameen River, in B. C.Palmer, inB. C. Papers, vol. iii., p. 84. Pend d'Oreille women rub the face every morning with a mixture of red and brown powder, which is made to stick by a coating of fish-oil.De Smet,Voy., p. 198.
[387]The Oakinack 'women wear their hair neatly clubbed on each side of the head behind the ears, and ornamented with double rows of the snowy higua, which are among the Oakinackens called Shet-la-cane; but they keep it shed or divided in front. The men's hair is queued or rolled up into a knot behind the head, and ornamented like that of the women; but in front it falls or hangs down loosely before the face, covering the forehead and the eyes, which causes them every now and then to shake the head, or use the hands to uncover their eyes.'Ross' Adven., pp. 294-5. The head of the Nez Perces not ornamented.Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 341, 321, 351, 377, 528, 532-3;Coke's Rocky Mts., p. 304;Kane's Wand., p. 274.
[388]The Ootlashoot women wear 'a long shirt of skin, reaching down to the ancles, and tied round the waist.' Few ornaments. The Nez Percés wear 'the buffalo or elk-skin robe decorated with beads, sea-shells, chiefly mother-of-pearl, attached to an otter-skin collar and hung in the hair.' Leggins and moccasins are painted; a plait of twisted grass is worn round the neck. The women wear their long robe without a girdle, but to it 'are tied little pieces of brass and shells, and other small articles.' 'The dress of the female is indeed more modest, and more studiously so than any we have observed, though the other sex is careless of the indelicacy of exposure.' 'The Sokulk females have no other covering but a truss or piece of leather tied round the hips and then drawn tight between the legs.' Three fourths of the Pisquitpaws 'have scarcely any robes at all.' The Chilluckittequaws use skins of wolves, deer, elk, and wild cats. 'Round their neck is put a strip of some skin with the tail of the animal hanging down over the breast.'Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 321, 340-1, 351, 359, 361, 377, 526, 528, 532-3. Many of the Walla Walla, Nez Percé, and Cayuse females wore robes 'richly garnished with beads, higuas,' etc. The war chief wears as a head-dress the whole skin of a wolf's head, with the ears standing erect. The Okanagans wear in winter long detachable sleeves or mittens of wolf or fox skin, also wolf or bear skin caps when hunting. Men and women dress nearly alike, and are profuse in the use of ornaments.Ross' Adven., p. 127, 294-8;Id.,Fur Hunters, vol. i., p. 306. The Flatheads often change their clothing and clean it with pipe-clay. They have no regular head-dress. From the Yakima to the Okanagan the men go naked, and the women wear only a belt with a slip passing between the legs.Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 133, 148, 240-1, vol. ii., p. 144. Nez Percés better clad than any others, Cayuses well clothed, Walla Wallas naked and half starved.Palmer's Jour., pp. 54, 124, 127-8. At the Dalles, women 'go nearly naked, for they wear little else than what may be termed a breech-cloth, of buckskin, which is black and filthy with dirt.'Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., pp. 409-10, 426, 473. The Kliketat women wear a short pine-bark petticoat tied round the loins.Townsend's Nar., pp. 78, 178, 148. 'Their buffaloe robes and other skins they chiefly procure on the Missouri, when they go over to hunt, as there are no buffaloe in this part of the country and very little other game.'Gass' Jour., pp. 189, 205, 218-19, 295. Tusshepaw 'women wore caps of willow neatly worked and figured.'Irving's Astoria, pp. 315, 317, 319;Id.,Bonneville's Adven., p. 301. The Flathead women wear straw hats, used also for drinking and cooking purposes.De Smet,Voy., pp. 45-7, 198. The Shushwaps wear in wet weather capes of bark trimmed with fur, and reaching to the elbows. Moccasins are more common than on the coast, but they often ride barefoot.Mayne's B. C., p. 301.Parker's Explor. Tour, pp. 229-30;Kane's Wand., p. 264, and cut;Fremont's Ogn. and Cal., pp. 186-7;Stevens, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1854, p. 222;Nicolay's Ogn. Ter., p. 153;Franchère's Nar., p. 268;Dunn's Oregon, p. 311;Coke's Rocky Mts., p. 304;Hunt, inNouvelles Annales des Voy., tom. x., 1821, pp. 74-5, 78.
[389]The Sokulk houses 'generally of a square or oblong form, varying in length from fifteen to sixty feet, and supported in the inside by poles or forks about six feet high.' The roof is nearly flat. The Echeloot and Chilluckittequaw houses were of the Chinook style, partially sunk in the ground. The Nez Percés live in houses built 'of straw and mats, in the form of the roof of a house.' One of these 'was one hundred and fifty-six feet long, and about fifteen wide, closed at the ends, and having a number of doors on each side.'Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 340, 351, 369-70, 381-2, 540. Nez Percé dwellings twenty to seventy feet long and from ten to fifteen feet wide; free from vermin. Flathead houses conical but spacious, made of buffalo and moose skins over long poles. Spokane lodges oblong or conical, covered with skins or mats.Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 148, 192, 200. Nez Percé and Cayuse lodges 'composed of ten long poles, the lower ends of which are pointed and driven into the ground; the upper blunt and drawn together at the top by thongs' covered with skins. 'Universally used by the mountain Indians while travelling.' Umatillas live in 'shantys or wigwams of driftwood, covered with buffalo or deer skins.' Klicatats 'in miserable loose hovels.'Townsend's Nar., pp. 104-5, 156, 174. Okanagan winter lodges are long and narrow, 'chiefly of mats and poles, covered over with grass and earth;' dug one or two feet below the surface; look like the roof of a common house set on the ground.Ross' Adven., pp. 313-4. On the Yakima River 'a small canopy, hardly sufficient to shelter a sheep, was found to contain four generations of human beings.'Pickering's Races, inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. ix., pp. 34, 37. On the Clearwater 'there are not more than four lodges in a place or village, and these small camps or villages are eight or ten miles apart.' 'Summer lodges are made of willows and flags, and their winter lodges of split pine.'Gass' Jour., pp. 212, 221, 223. 'At Kettle Falls, the lodges are of rush mats.' 'A flooring is made of sticks, raised three or four feet from the ground, leaving the space beneath it entirely open, and forming a cool, airy, and shady place, in which to hang their salmon.'Kane's Wand., pp. 309, 272-3. The Pend d'Oreilles roll their tent-mats into cylindrical bundles for convenience in traveling.Stevens, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1854, pp. 215, 238, 282.Barnhart, inId., 1862, p. 271. The Shushwap den is warm but 'necessarily unwholesome, and redolent ... of anything but roses.'Anderson, inHist. Mag., vol. vii., p. 77. Yakimas, 'rude huts covered with mats.'Gibbs, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., p. 407. Shushwaps erect rude slants of bark or matting; have no tents or houses.Milton and Cheadle's N. W. Pass., p. 242. From the swamps south of Flatbow Lake, 'the Kootanie Indians obtain the klusquis or thick reed, which is the only article that serves them in the construction of their lodges,' and is traded with other tribes.Sullivan, inPalliser's Explor., p. 15. In winter the Salish cover their mats with earth.Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., p. 207. Flag huts of the Walla Wallas.Farnham's Trav., p. 85;Mullan's Rept., pp. 49-50;Palmer's Jour., p. 61;Coke's Rocky Mts., p. 295;Irving's Astoria, pp. 315, 319;Id.,Bonneville's Adven., p. 301;De Smet,Voy., p. 185;Id.,West. Missions, p. 284;Lord's Nat., vol. ii., pp. 105-6.Hunt, inNouvelles Annales des Voy., tom. x., 1821, pp. 74-5, 79.
[390]Natives begin to assemble at Kettle Falls about three weeks before the salmon begin to run; feuds are laid by; horse-racing, gambling, love-making, etc., occupy the assembly; and the medicine-men are busy working charms for a successful season. The fish are cut open, dried on poles over a small fire, and packed in bales. On the Fraser each family or village fishes for itself; near the mouth large gaff-hooks are used, higher up a net managed between two canoes. All the principal Indian fishing-stations on the Fraser are below Fort Hope. For sturgeon a spear seventy to eighty feet long is used. Cut of sturgeon-fishing.Lord's Nat., vol. i., pp. 71-6, 181, 184-6. The Pend d'Oreilles 'annually construct a fence which reaches across the stream, and guides the fish into a weir or rack,' on Clarke River, just above the lake. The Walla Walla 'fisheries at the Dalles and the falls, ten miles above, are the finest on the river.' The Yakima weirs constructed 'upon horizontal spars, and supported by tripods of strong poles erected at short distances apart; two of the logs fronting up stream, and one supporting them below;' some fifty or sixty yards long. The salmon of the Okanagan were 'of a small species, which had assumed a uniform red color.' 'The fishery at the Kettle Falls is one of the most important on the river, and the arrangements of the Indians in the shape of drying-scaffolds and store-houses are on a corresponding scale.'Ind. Aff. Rept., 1854, pp. 214, 223, 231, 233;Gibbs, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., pp. 407-8. The salmon chief at Kettle Falls distributes the fish among the people, every one, even the smallest child, getting an equal share.Kane's Wand., pp. 311-14. On Des Chutes River 'they spear the fish with barbed iron points, fitted loosely by sockets to the ends of poles about eight feet long,' to which they are fastened by a thong about twelve feet long.Abbott, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. vi., p. 90. On the upper Columbia an Indian 'cut off a bit of his leathern shirt, about the size of a small bean; then pulling out two or three hairs from his horse's tail for a line, tied the bit of leather to one end of it, in place of a hook or fly.'Ross' Adven., pp. 132-3. At the mouth of Flatbow River 'a dike of round stones, which runs up obliquely against the main stream, on the west side, for more than one hundred yards in length, resembling the foundation of a wall.' Similar range on the east side, supposed to be for taking fish at low water.Ross' Fur Hunters, vol. ii., pp. 165-6. West of the Rocky Mountains they fish 'with great success by means of a kind of large basket suspended from a long cord.'Domenech's Deserts, vol. ii., pp. 240-1. On Powder River they use the hook as a gaff.Coke's Rocky Mts., p. 283. A Wasco spears three or four salmon of twenty to thirty pounds each in ten minutes.Remy and Brenchley's Jour., vol. ii., p. 506. No salmon are taken above the upper falls of the Columbia.Thornton's Ogn. and Cal., vol. i., p. 392. Walla Walla fish-weirs 'formed of two curtains of small willow switches matted together with withes of the same plant, and extending across the river in two parallel lines, six feet asunder. These are supported by several parcels of poles, ... and are either rolled up or let down at pleasure for a few feet.... A seine of fifteen or eighteen feet in length is then dragged down the river by two persons, and the bottom drawn up against the curtain of willows.'Lewis and Clarke's Trav., p. 532. Make fishing-nets of flax.Parker's Explor. Tour, p. 90. 'The Inland, as well as the Coast, tribes, live to a great extent upon salmon.'Mayne's B. C., p. 242;Nicolay's Ogn. Ter., pp. 152-3. Palouse 'live solely by fishing.'Mullan's Rept., p. 49. Salmon cannot ascend to Coeur d'Alêne Lake.Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., pp. 209-10. Okanagan food 'consists principally of salmon and a small fish which they call carp.'Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., p. 462. The Walla Wallas 'may well be termed the fishermen of the Skyuse camp.'Farnham's Trav., p. 82.
[391]The Shushwaps formerly crossed the mountains to the Assinniboine territory. The Okanagans when hunting wear wolf or bear skin caps; there is no bird or beast whose voice they cannot imitate. War and hunting were the Nez Percé occupation; cross the mountains for buffalo.Ross' Fur Hunters, vol. i., pp. 148, 219, 297-8, 305. The chief game of the Nez Percés is the deer, 'and whenever the ground will permit, the favourite hunt is on horseback.'Lewis and Clarke's Trav., p. 555. The Salish live by the chase, on elk, moose, deer, big-horn and bears; make two trips annually, spring to fall, and fall to mid-winter, across the mountains, accompanied by other nations. The Pend d'Oreilles hunt deer in the snow with clubs; have distinct localities for hunting each kind of game. Nez Percés, Flatheads, Coeurs d'Alêne, Spokanes, Pend d'Oreilles, etc., hunt together. Yakimas formerly joined the Flatheads in eastern hunt.Ind. Aff. Rept., 1854, pp. 207-8, 212-15, 218, 225-6. 'Two hunts annually across the mountains—one in April, for the bulls, from which they return in June and July; and another, after about a month's recruit, to kill cows, which have by that time become fat.'Stevens, Gibbs, and Suckley, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., pp. 415, 408, 296-7, vol. xii., p. 134. Kootenais live by the chase principally.Hutchins, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1863, p. 455. Spokanes rather indolent in hunting; hunting deer by fire.Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 197, vol. ii., pp. 46-7. The Kootenais 'seldom hunt;' there is not much to shoot except wild fowl in fall. Trap beaver and carriboeuf on a tributary of the Kootanie River.Palliser's Explor., pp. 10, 15, 73. Flatheads 'follow the buffalo upon the headwaters of Clarke and Salmon rivers.' Nez Percé women accompany the men to the buffalo-hunt.Parker's Explor. Tour, pp. 107, 311. Kootenais cross the mountains for buffalo.Mayne's B. C., p. 297. Coeurs d'Alêne ditto.Mullan's Rept., p. 49. Half of the Nez Percés 'usually make a trip to the buffalo country for three months.'Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., p. 494. Shushwaps 'live by hunting the bighorns, mountain goats, and marmots.'Milton and Cheadle's N. W. Pass., p. 242. Buffalo never pass to west of the Rocky Mountains.Lord's Nat., vol. ii., p. 179;Kane's Wand., p. 328;De Smet,Voy., pp. 31, 45, 144-5;Ind. Life, pp. 23-4, 34-41;Franchère's Nar., pp. 268-9;Hunt, inNouvelles Annales des Voy., tom. x., 1821, pp. 77-82;Stuart, inId., tom. xii., pp. 25, 35-6;Joset, inId., tom. cxxiii., 1849, pp. 334-40.
[392]The Kliketats gather and eatpeahay, a bitter root boiled into a jelly;n'poolthla, ground into flour;mamumandseekywa, made into bitter white cakes;kamass;calz, a kind of wild sunflower.Tolmie, inLord's Nat., vol. ii., p. 247. The Flatheads go every spring to Camass Prairie.De Smet,Voy., p. 183. The Kootenais eat kamash and an edible moss.Id.,Missions de l'Orégon, pp. 75-6. 'The Cayooses, Nez Percés, and other warlike tribes assemble (in Yakima Valley) every spring to lay in a stock of the favourite kamass and pelua, or sweet potatoes.'Ross' Fur Hunters, vol. i., p. 19. Quamash, round, onion-shaped, and sweet, eaten by the Nez Percés.Lewis and Clarke's Trav., p. 330. Couse root dug in April or May; camas in June and July.Alvord, inSchoolcraft's Arch., vol. v., p. 656. The Skyuses 'main subsistence is however upon roots.' The Nez Percés eatkamash,cowishor biscuit root,jackap,aisish,quako, etc.Irving's Bonneville's Adven., p. 301, 388. Okanagans live extensively on moss made into bread. The Nez Percés also eat moss.Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., pp. 462, 494. Pend d'Oreilles at the last extremity live on pine-tree moss; also collect camash, bitter-roots, and sugar pears.Stevens, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1854, p. 211, 214-15. 'I never saw any berry in the course of my travels which the Indians scruple to eat, nor have I seen any ill effect from their doing so.'Kane's Wand., p. 327. The Kootenai food in September 'appears to be almost entirely berries; namely, the "sasketoom" of the Crees, a delicious fruit, and a small species of cherry, also a sweet root which they obtain to the southward.'Blakiston, inPalliser's Explor., p. 73. Flatheads digkonah, 'bitter root' in May. It is very nutritious and very bitter.Pahseego, camas, or 'water seego,' is a sweet, gummy, bulbous root.Stuart's Montana, pp. 57-8. Colvilles cut down pines for their moss (alectoria?). Kamas also eaten.Pickering's Races, inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. ix., p. 34. The Shushwaps eat moss and lichens, chiefly the black lichen, orwhyelkine.Mayne's B. C., p. 301;Parker's Explor. Tour, p. 127. The Salish in March and April eatpopkah, an onion-like bulb; in May,spatlam, a root like vermicelli; in June and July,itwha, like roasted chestnuts; in August, wild fruits; in September,marani, a grain.Domenech's Deserts, vol. ii., p. 312.
[393]At the Dalles 'during the fishing season, the Indians live entirely on the heads, hearts and offal of the salmon, which they string on sticks, and roast over a small fire.' Besides pine-moss, the Okanagans use the seed of the balsam oriza pounded into meal, calledmielito. 'To this is added thesiffleurs.' Berries made into cakes by the Nez Percés.Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., pp. 410, 462, 494. Quamash, 'eaten either in its natural state, or boiled into a kind of soup, or made into a cake, which is then called pasheco.'Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 330, 353, 365, 369. Women's head-dress serves the Flatheads for cooking, etc.De Smet,Voy., pp. 47, 193-9;Id.,Missions de l'Orégon, pp. 75-6. 'The dog's tongue is the only dish-cloth known' to the Okanagans. Pine-moss cooked, orsquill-ape, will keep for years. 'At their meals they generally eat separately and in succession—man, woman and child.'Ross' Adven., pp. 132-3, 295, 317-18. 'Most of their food is roasted, and they excel in roasting fish.'Parker's Explor. Tour, pp. 231, 107. 'Pine moss, which they boil till it is reduced to a sort of glue or black paste, of a sufficient consistence to take the form of biscuit.'Franchère's Nar., p. 279. Couse tastes like parsnips, is dried and pulverized, and sometimes boiled with meat.Alvord, inSchoolcraft's Arch., vol. v., p. 656. Root bread on the Clearwater tastes like that made of pumpkins.Gass' Jour., pp. 202-3. Kamas after coming from the kiln is 'made into large cakes, by being mashed, and pressed together, and slightly baked in the sun.' White-root, pulverized with stones, moistened and sun-baked, tastes not unlike stale biscuits.Townsend's Nar., pp. 126-7. Camas and sun-flower seed mixed with salmon-heads caused in the eater great distension of the stomach.Remy and Brenchley's Jour., vol. ii., pp. 509-11.Sowete, is the name of the mixture last named, among the Cayuses.Coke's Rocky Mts., p. 310;Ind. Life, p. 41;Stuart's Montana, pp. 57-8;Pickering's Races, inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. ix., p. 34;Kane's Wand., pp. 272-3;Ind. Aff. Rept., 1854, pp. 214-15.
[394]Additional notes and references on procuring food. The Okanagans break up winter quarters in February; wander about in small bands till June. Assemble on the river and divide into two parties of men and two of women for fishing and dressing fish, hunting and digging roots, until October; hunt in small parties in the mountains or the interior for four or six weeks; and then go into winter quarters on the small rivers.Ross' Adven., pp. 314-16. Further south on the Columbia plains the natives collect and dry roots until May; fish on the north bank of the river till September, burying the fish; dig camas on the plains till snow falls; and retire to the foot of the mountains to hunt deer and elk through the winter. The Nez Percés catch salmon and dig roots in summer; hunt deer on snow-shoes in winter; and cross the mountains for buffalo in spring. Sokulks live on fish, roots, and antelope. Eneeshur, Echeloots, and Chilluckittequaw, on fish, berries, roots and nuts.Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 444-5, 340-1, 352, 365, 370. Spokanes live on deer, wild fowl, salmon, trout, carp, pine-moss, roots and wild fruit. They have no repugnance to horse-flesh, but never kill horses for food. The Sinapoils live on salmon, camas, and an occasional small deer. The Chaudiere country well stocked with game, fish and fruit.Cox's Adven., vol. i., p. 201, vol. ii., p. 145. The Kayuse live on fish, game, and camass bread.De Smet,Voy., pp. 30-1. 'Ils cultivent avec succès le blé, les patates, les pois et plusieurs autres légumes et fruits.'Id.,Miss. de l'Orégon., p. 67. Pend d'Oreilles; fish, Kamash, and pine-tree moss.Id.,West. Missions, p. 284. 'Whole time was occupied in providing for their bellies, which were rarely full.'Ind. Aff. Rept., 1854, p. 211. Yakimas and Kliketats; Unis or fresh-water muscles, little game, sage-fowl and grouse, kamas, berries, salmon. The Okanagans raise some potatoes.Gibbs, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., pp. 404, 408, 413. Kootenais; fish and wild fowl, berries and pounded meat, have cows and oxen.Palliser's Explor., pp. 10, 72. Palouse; fish, birds, and small animals. Umatillas; fish, sage-cocks, prairie-hares.Lord's Nat., vol. ii., pp. 97, 105-6. Tushepaws would not permit horses or dogs to be eaten.Irving's Astoria, p. 316. Nez Percés; beaver, elk, deer, white bear, and mountain sheep, also steamed roots.Id.,Bonneville's Adven., p. 301. Sahaptin; gather cherries and berries on Clarke River.Gass' Jour., p. 193;Nicolay's Ogn. Ter., p. 151;Hines' Voy., p. 167;Brownell's Ind. Races, pp. 533-5;Stanley's Portraits, pp. 63-71;Catlin's N. Am. Ind., vol. ii., p. 108;Kane's Wand., pp. 263-4;Parker's Explor. Tour, pp. 228-31, 309;Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., p. 474;Hale's Ethnog.,Ib., vol. vi., p. 206.
[395]Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 383, 548;Parker's Explor. Tour, pp. 230, 312;Townsend's Nar., p. 148;De Smet,Voy., pp. 46-7, 198;Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 197-9, 358, vol. ii., pp. 155, 373, 375;Coke's Rocky Mts., p. 295;Palmer's Jour., pp. 54, 58, 59.
[396]The Okanagan weapon is called aSpampt.Ross' Adven., pp. 318-19;Id.,Fur Hunters, vol. i., pp. 306-8. 'Ils ... faire leurs arcs d'un bois très-élastique, ou de la corne du cerf.'De Smet,Voy., p. 48;Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., p. 488;Stevens, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., p. 405;Townsend's Nar., p. 98;Irving's Astoria, p. 317;Lewis and Clarke's Trav., p. 351;Parker's Explor. Tour, pp. 106-7, 233;Cox's Adven., vol. i., p. 216.
[397]Torture of Blackfeet prisoners; burning with a red-hot gun-barrel, pulling out the nails, taking off fingers, scooping out the eyes, scalping, revolting cruelties to female captives. The disputed right of the Flatheads to hunt buffalo at the eastern foot of the mountains is the cause of the long-continued hostility. The wisest and bravest is annually elected war chief. The war chief carries a long whip and secures discipline by flagellation. Except a few feathers and pieces of red cloth, both the Flathead and Kootenai enter battle perfectly naked.Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 232-45, vol. ii., p. 160. The Cayuse and Sahaptin are the most warlike of all the southern tribes. The Nez Percés good warriors, but do not follow war as a profession.Ross' Fur Hunters, vol. i., pp. 185-6, 305, 308-12, vol. ii., pp. 93-6, 139. Among the Okanagans 'the hot bath, council, and ceremony of smoking the great pipe before war, is always religiously observed. Their laws, however, admit of no compulsion, nor is the chief's authority implicitly obeyed on these occasions; consequently, every one judges for himself, and either goes or stays as he thinks proper. With a view, however, to obviate this defect in their system, they have instituted the dance, which answers every purpose of a recruiting service.' 'Every man, therefore, who enters within this ring and joins in the dance ... is in honour bound to assist in carrying on the war.'Id.,Adven.pp. 319-20. Mock battles and military display for the entertainment of white visitors.Hines' Voy., pp. 173-4. The Chilluckittequaws cut off the forefingers of a slain enemy as trophies.Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 375-6. When scouting, 'Flathead chief would ride at full gallop so near the foe as to flap in their faces the eagle's tail streaming behind (from his cap), yet no one dared seize the tail or streamer, it being considered sacrilegious and fraught with misfortune to touch it.'Tolmie, inLord's Nat., vol. ii., p. 238. A thousand Walla Wallas came to the Sacramento River in 1846, to avenge the death of a young chief killed by an American about a year before.Colton's Three Years in Cal., p. 52. One Flathead is said to be equal to four Blackfeet in battle.De Smet,Voy., pp. 31, 49;Dunn's Oregon, pp. 312-13;Gray's Hist. Ogn., pp. 171-4;Parker's Explor. Tour, pp. 233-7;Stanley's Portraits, pp. 65-71;Ind. Life, pp. 23-5;Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., p. 495.
[398]White marl clay used to cleanse skin robes, by making it into a paste, rubbing it on the hide and leaving it to dry, after which it is rubbed off. Saddles usually sit uneasily on the horse's back.Parker's Explor. Tour, pp. 106, 232-4. 'Mallet of stone curiously carved' among the Sokulks. Near the Cascades was seen a ladder resembling those used by the whites. The Pishquitpaws used 'a saddle or pad of dressed skin, stuffed with goats' hair.'Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 353, 370, 375, 528. On the Fraser a rough kind of isinglass was at one time prepared and traded to the Hudson Bay Company.Lord's Nat., vol. i., p. 177. 'The Sahaptins still make a kind of vase of lava, somewhat in the shape of a crucible, but very wide; they use it as a mortar for pounding the grain, of which they make cakes.'Domenech's Deserts, vol. ii., pp. 64, 243. (Undoubtedly an error.) Pend d'Oreilles; 'les femmes ... font des nattes de joncs, des paniers, et des chapeaux sans bords.'De Smet,Voy., p. 199. 'Nearly all (the Shushwaps) use the Spanish wooden saddle, which they make with much skill.'Mayne's B. C., pp. 301-2. 'The saddles for women differ in form, being furnished with the antlers of a deer, so as to resemble the high pommelled saddle of the Mexican ladies.'Franchère's Nar., pp. 269-70;Palmer's Jour., p. 129;Irving's Astoria, p. 317, 365;Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 148-9.
[399]'The white-pine bark is a very good substitute for birch, but has the disadvantage of being more brittle in cold weather.'Suckley, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., p. 296. Yakima boats are 'simply logs hollowed out and sloped up at the ends, without form or finish.'Gibbs, inId., p. 408. The Flatheads 'have no canoes, but in ferrying streams use their lodge skins, which are drawn up into an oval form by cords, and stretched on a few twigs. These they tow with horses, riding sometimes three abreast.'Stevens, inId., p. 415. In the Kootenai canoe 'the upper part is covered, except a space in the middle.' The length is twenty-two feet, the bottom being a dead level from end to end.Ross' Fur Hunters, vol. ii., pp. 169-70. 'The length of the bottom of the one I measured was twelve feet, the width between the gunwales only seven and one half feet.' 'When an Indian paddles it, he sits at the extreme end, and thus sinks the conical point, which serves to steady the canoe like a fish's tail.'Lord's Nat., vol. ii., pp. 178-9, 255-7. On the Arrow Lakes 'their form is also peculiar and very beautiful. These canoes run the rapids with more safety than those of any other shape.'Kane's Wand., p. 328. SeeDe Smet,Voy., pp. 35, 187;Irving's Astoria, p. 319;Lewis and Clarke's Trav., p. 375;Hector, inPalliser's Explor., p. 27;Stevens, inInd. Aff. Rept., 1854, pp. 208, 214, 223, 238.
[400]'The tradition is that horses were obtained from the southward,' not many generations back.Tolmie, inLord's Nat., vol. ii., pp. 247, 177-8. Individuals of the Walla Wallas have over one thousand horses.Warre and Vavasour, inMartin's Hud. Bay, p. 83. Kootenais rich in horses and cattle.Palliser's Explor., pp. 44, 73. Kliketat and Yakima horses sometimes fine, but injured by early usage; deteriorated from a good stock; vicious and lazy.Gibbs, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., p. 405. 'La richesse principale des sauvages de l'ouest consiste en chevaux.'De Smet,Voy., pp. 47, 56. At an assemblage of Walla Wallas, Shahaptains and Kyoots, 'the plains were literally covered with horses, of which there could not have been less than four thousand in sight of the camp.'Ross' Adven., p. 127. The Kootanies about Arrow Lake, or Sinatcheggs have no horses, as the country is not suitable for them.Id.,Fur Hunters, vol. ii., pp. 171-2. Of the Spokanes the 'chief riches are their horses, which they generally obtain in barter from the Nez Percés.'Cox's Adven., vol. i., p. 200. A Skyuse is poor who has but fifteen or twenty horses. The horses are a fine race, 'as large and of better form and more activity than most of the horses of the States.'Farnham's Trav., p. 82. The Flatheads 'are the most northern of the equestrian tribes.'Nicolay's Ogn. Ter., p. 153. Many Nez Percés 'have from five to fifteen hundred head of horses.'Palmer's Jour., pp. 128-9. Indians of the Spokane and Flathead tribes 'own from one thousand to four thousand head of horses and cattle.'Stevens' Address, p. 12. The Nez Percé horses 'are principally of the pony breed; but remarkably stout and long-winded.'Irving's Bonneville's Adven., p. 301;Hastings' Em. Guide, p. 59;Hines' Voy., p. 344;Gass' Jour., p. 295;Parker's Explor. Tour, p. 230.
[401]The Chilluckittequaw intercourse seems to be an intermediate trade with the nations near the mouth of the Columbia. The Chopunnish trade for, as well as hunt, buffalo-robes east of the mountains. Course of trade in the Sahaptin county: The plain Indians during their stay on the river from May to September, before they begin fishing, go down to the falls with skins, mats, silk-grass, rushes and chapelell bread. Here they meet the mountain tribes from the Kooskooskie (Clearwater) and Lewis rivers, who bring bear-grass, horses, quamash and a few skins obtained by hunting or by barter from the Tushepaws. At the falls are the Chilluckittequaws, Eneeshurs, Echeloots and Skilloots, the latter being intermediate traders between the upper and lower tribes. These tribes have pounded fish for sale; and the Chinooks bring wappato, sea-fish, berries, and trinkets obtained from the whites. Then the trade begins; the Chopunnish and mountain tribes buy wappato, pounded fish and beads; and the plain Indians buy wappato, horses, beads, etc.Lewis and Clarke's Trav., pp. 341, 382, 444-5. Horse-fairs in which the natives display the qualities of their steeds with a view to sell.Lord's Nat., vol. ii., pp. 86-7. The Oakinacks make trips to the Pacific to trade wild hemp for hiaqua shells and trinkets.Ross' Adven., pp. 291, 323. Trade conducted in silence between a Flathead and Crow.De Smet,Voy., p. 56. Kliketats and Yakimas 'have become to the neighboring tribes what the Yankees were to the once Western States, the traveling retailers of notions.'Gibbs, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., pp. 403, 406. Cayuses, Walla Wallas, and Nez Percés meet in Grande Ronde Valley to trade with the Snakes.Thornton's Ogn. and Cal., vol. i., p. 270;Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., p. 208;Cox's Adven., vol. ii., pp. 88-9, 156;Palmer's Jour., pp. 46, 54;Dunniway's Capt. Gray's Comp., p. 160;Coke's Rocky Mts., p. 294;Mayne's B. C., p. 299;Gass' Jour., p. 205.
[402]In calculating time the Okanagans use their fingers, each finger standing for ten; some will reckon to a thousand with tolerable accuracy, but most can scarcely count to twenty.Ross' Adven., p. 324. The Flatheads 'font néanmoins avec précision, sur des écorces d'arbres ou sur des peaux le plan, des pays qu'ils ont parcourus, marquant les distances par journées, demi-journées ou quarts de journées.'De Smet,Voy., p. 205. Count years by snows, months by moons, and days by sleeps. Have names for each number up to ten; then add ten to each; and then add a word to multiply by ten.Parker's Explor. Tour, p. 242. Names of the months in the Pisquouse and Salish languages beginning with January;—'cold, a certain herb, snow-gone, bitter-root, going to root-ground, camass-root, hot, gathering berries, exhausted salmon, dry, house-building, snow.'Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., p. 211. 'Menses computant lunis, ex spkani,solvellunaet dies per ferias. Hebdomadam unicam per splcháskat,septem dies, plures vero hebdomadas per s'chaxèus, id est,vexillumquod a duce maximo qualibet die dominica suspendebatur. Dies antem in novem dividitur partes.'Mengarini,Grammatica Linguae Selicae, p. 120;Sproat's Scenes, p. 270;Lewis and Clarke's Trav., p. 374.
[403]The twelve Oakinack tribes 'form, as it were, so many states belonging to the same union, and are governed by petty chiefs.' The chieftainship descends from father to son; and though merely nominal in authority, the chief is rarely disobeyed. Property pays for all crimes.Ross' Adven., pp. 289-94, 322-3, 327. The Chualpays are governed by the 'chief of the earth' and 'chief of the waters,' the latter having exclusive authority in the fishing-season.Kane's Wand., pp. 309-13. The Nez Percés offered a Flathead the position of head chief, through admiration of his qualities.De Smet,Voy., pp. 50, 171. Among the Kalispels the chief appoints his successor, or if he fails to do so, one is elected.De Smet,Western Miss., p. 297. The Flathead war chief carries a long whip, decorated with scalps and feathers to enforce strict discipline. The principal chief is hereditary.Cox's Adven., vol. i., pp. 241-2, vol. ii., p. 88. The 'camp chief' of the Flatheads as well as the war chief was chosen for his merits.Ind. Life, pp. 28-9. Among the Nez Percés and Wascos 'the form of government is patriarchal. They acknowledge the hereditary principle—blood generally decides who shall be the chief.'Alvord, inSchoolcraft's Arch., vol. v., pp. 652-4. No regularly recognized chief among the Spokanes, but an intelligent and rich man often controls the tribe by his influence.Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., pp. 475-6. 'The Salish can hardly be said to have any regular form of government.'Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., pp. 207-8. Every winter the Cayuses go down to the Dalles to hold a council over the Chinooks 'to ascertain their misdemeanors and punish them therefor by whipping'!Farnham's Trav., p. 81-2. Among the Salish 'criminals are sometimes punished by banishment from their tribe.' 'Fraternal union and the obedience to the chiefs are truly admirable.'Domenech's Deserts, vol. ii., pp. 343-4;Hines' Voy., p. 157;Stanley's Portraits, p. 63;Dunn's Oregon, pp. 311-12;White's Oregon, p. 189;Pickering's Races, inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. ix., p. 108;Joset, inNouvelles Annales des Voy., tom. cxxiii., 1849, pp. 334-40.
[404]'Slavery is common with all the tribes.'Warre and Vavasour, inMartin's Hud. B., p. 83. Sahaptins always make slaves of prisoners of war. The Cayuses have many.Alvord, inSchoolcraft's Arch., vol. v., p. 654;Palmer's Jour., p. 56. Among the Okanagans 'there are but few slaves ... and these few are adopted as children, and treated in all respects as members of the family.'Ross' Adven., p. 320. The inland tribes formerly practiced slavery, but long since abolished it.Parker's Explor. Tour, p. 247. 'Not practised in the interior.'Mayne's B. C., p. 243. Not practiced by the Shushwaps.Anderson, inHist. Mag., vol. vii., p. 78.
[405]Each Okanagan 'family is ruled by the joint will or authority of the husband and wife, but more particularly by the latter.' Wives live at different camps among their relatives; one or two being constantly with the husband. Brawls constantly occur when several wives meet. The women are chaste, and attached to husband and children. At the age of fourteen or fifteen the young man pays his addresses in person to the object of his love, aged eleven or twelve. After the old folks are in bed, he goes to her wigwam, builds a fire, and if welcome the mother permits the girl to come and sit with him for a short time. These visits are several times repeated, and he finally goes in the day-time with friends and his purchase money.Ross' Adven., pp. 295-302. The Spokane husband joins his wife's tribe; women are held in great respect; and much affection is shown for children. Among the Nez Percés both men and women have the power of dissolving the marriage tie at pleasure.Wilkes' Nar., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., pp. 410, 475-6, 486, 495. The Coeurs d'Alêne 'have abandoned polygamy.'Stevens, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., pp. 149, 309;Gibbs, inPac. R. R. Rept., vol. i., p. 406. Pend d'Oreille women less enslaved than in the mountains, but yet have much heavy work, paddle canoes, etc. Generally no marriage among savages.De Smet,Voy., pp. 198-9, 210. The Nez Percés generally confine themselves to two wives, and rarely marry cousins. No wedding ceremony.Alvord, inSchoolcraft's Arch., vol. v., p. 655. Polygamy not general on the Fraser; and unknown to Kootenais.Cox's Adven., vol. ii., pp. 155, 379, vol. i., pp. 256-9. Nez Percés have abandoned polygamy.Palmer's Jour., pp. 129, 56. Flathead women do everything but hunt and fight.Ind. Life, p. 41. Flathead women 'by no means treated as slaves, but, on the contrary, have much consideration and authority.'Hale's Ethnog., inU. S. Ex. Ex., vol. vi., p. 207. 'Rarely marry out of their own nation,' and do not like their women to marry whites.Dunn's Oregon, pp. 313-14. The Sokulk men 'are said to content themselves with a single wife, with whom ... the husband shares the labours of procuring subsistence much more than is usual among savages.'Lewis and Clarke's Trav., p. 351;Dunniway's Capt. Gray's Comp., p. 161;Gray's Hist. Ogn., p. 171;Tolmie and Anderson, inLord's Nat., vol. ii., pp. 231-5;Ind. Aff. Rept., 1854, p. 208;De Smet's West. Miss., p. 289.