INDIANS OF WASHINGTON TERRITORY. 619 



^^aver.— The meat for food, the skius for furs, and the teeth employed 

 iu games. 



Cat (ivild). — The flesh is eaten ; the skins are made into robes. 



Bog {common) is of use for domestic purposes, hunting, and the like. 



Bog {wool). — The hair used in making blankets. The breed now ex- 

 tinct. 



Deer. —This is probably the most useful wild animal known to them. 

 The flesh used for food, skins for robes, strings, fringes, moccasins? 

 clothes, and shot-pouches. The fawn-skins are sometimes made into 

 buoys, used in whaling. Formerly they made shirts, which answered 

 the purposes of shields or suits of armor, out of buckskin. Of the 

 sinews they make thread, and of the hoofs, rattles used in religious 

 dances. The brains employed in tanning. 



ElJc. — The flesh serves for food ; the skins for robes, shield-shirts, and 

 when dressed, for strings and clothes ; of the horns they make chisels, 

 wedges, and paint. 



Mush-rat— The skins are used for furs, and the teeth they gamble 

 with. 



Otter. — The flesh is eaten. 



Otter {sea). — The fur valuable. 



Panther.— The skins are made into robes and clothes. 



Raccoon. — The skin is used for furs, and the flesh for food ; the bones 

 for dishes and ladles. 



Wolf. — The skin is used for robes, quivers, and caps. 



The intestines of several of these are used for hokling oil, and the 

 bones for various articles, such as awls, arrow and spear heads, combs, 

 fastenings, and the like. 



BIRDS. 



There are seventeen kinds of birds, which they utilize as follows : 



Crane. — The flesh is used for food ; the feathers for beds and pillows, 

 and also for ornamenting the hair at festivals. 



Buclcs. — Seven varieties of these, viz : The mallard, pin-tail, scoter (?), 

 wood-duck, teel, diver, and canvas-back, are used for food, and the 

 feathers for the same purposes as the crane feathers. 



Eagle. — The feathers are used for feathering arrows and in tamanous 

 head-bands. 



Grouse. — The flesh for food. 



Goose. — The flesh for food. 



GulL—The flesh serves for food for old people occasionally, and the 

 feathers for beds. 



Eau'Jc. — The feathers are worn in tamanous head-bands. 



King-fislier. — A piece of the skin, where tlie tail or wing feathers en 

 ter It, was used in fishing attached to the line near the hook, as it was 

 superstitiously supposed to attract fish. 



Loon. — Two kinds, the light and dark, were used for food, and the 

 feathers were made into beds. 



