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of the first group comprise some very interesting peoples, 

 as the Tlinkits, of which there are about 6000, the Haidas 

 (2500), the Tsimshians, Wakashes, Chenooks, or Flatheads 

 (12,000), Nez-perces (275). 



All these Indians are interesting; some famous for 

 their industry, for their totem poles, their work in silver, 

 bone, and wood, their large and beauti- 

 ful canoes, and particularly for their re- 

 markable basketry and the evidence of 

 a keen art sense displayed in the orna- 

 mentation and shape. The Chenooks 

 are interesting for their peculiar habit 

 of compressing the foreheads of infants 

 with a board so that in the adults the 

 brain is pushed back and the forehead 

 perfectly flat — a remarkable custom, 

 but not more so than the binding of 

 the feet among the Chinese and the 

 tight compression of the waist among 

 some civilized and Christian tribes of 

 the Caucasians. 



In the Oregon and California group 

 at least twenty-six linguistic families 

 are found. These are the Copehs, the 

 Pooyoonas, and the Kulanapans, living 

 along the valley of the Sacramento, the Salinas, Maripos 

 or Yokuts (130), the Chumashans, near Santa Barbara, the 

 Hupas, and the few descendants of the tribe which once 

 held forth on the Channel Islands. Farther south we find 

 the Yumas, the Mojaves, the Maricopas, the Seris, and in 

 Arizona and New Mexico the Moquis (2000). There are 



Fig. 199. — Totem 

 Pole. 



