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boiling by means of hot stones. Of the acorn flour they Hkewise make a 

 sort of bread, which thej- bake in the ashes. They had several spoons, very 

 neatly made of bone or horn [a. b. fig. 5]. At this village there was a large 

 fish-dam : a work exhibiting an extraordinary degree both of enterprise and 

 skill . . . We camped opposite the high point which forms a land-mark from 

 the Bald Hills, and which gives the name Bluf? creek to a stream entering 

 from the northwest, called by the Indians Otche-poh. Upon the other side of 

 the river was an Indian village, the Sehe-perrh : the first belonging to the 



Fig. 5. — Specimens collected by George Gibbs on the Klamath River, California. 



a, spoon made of elk antler, length 5^ inches, U.S.N.M. no. 7510: /', spoon 

 made of elk antler, length 6 inches, U.S.N.M. no. 751 1 ; c, shallow food tray, 

 diameter 7 inches, depth 2 inches, U.S.N.M. no. 7561 ; d, shallow food tray, 

 diameter io| inches, depth i\ inches. U.S.N.M. no. 7562: c. tray for draining 

 liquid from food, diameter 12 inches, deptli 2-. inches. U.S.N.M. no. 7562. 



tribe occupying the middle section of the river, and of which the Quoratem 

 or Salmon river Indians may be considered as the type. [PI. 16, fig. i.] 



The party encamped on the bank of the Klamath about i mile 

 above the mouth of Salmon River and there remained from the after- 

 noon of October 11 until the morning of the 13th. This was a rugged, 

 mountainous region through which it was difficult to pass. 



