Hubert Bancroft - The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes

For description of the various roots and berries used by the Chinooks as food, see Lewis and Clarke's Trav. , pp. 450-5.

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.

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 , in Schoolcraft's Arch. , vol. iii., pp. 206-7, 215-16, 468.

'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.

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 , in U. S. Ex. Ex. , vol. ix., p. 25; Emmons , in Schoolcraft'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.

Swan's N. W. Coast , pp. 161-3; Parker's Explor. Tour , p. 253.

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 , in Schoolcraft'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. , in U. 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.

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.

Have no idea of drawing maps on the sand. 'Their powers of computation … are very limited.' Emmons , in Schoolcraft'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.

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.

'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.

Swan's N. W. Coast , pp. 161, 171; Emmons , in Schoolcraft'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 , in Harper'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. , in U. 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.

'I saw neither musical instruments, nor dancing, among the Oregon tribes.' Pickering's Races , in U. 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 , in Harper's Mag. , vol. xiii., p. 601, and cut of dance at Coos Bay; Wilkes' Nar. , in U. 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.