100 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 66 
The Chimakuan family was originally composed of three distinct 
tribes living in the northwestern part of Washington. These tribes 
were the Chemakum, Quileute, and Hoh. The Chemakum tribe has 
disappeared entirely ; while the Quileute and Hoh tribes are repre- 
sented by approximately 350 individuals living at the Lapush Agency, 
in Clallam County, Washington. 
Fic. 123—A group of Quileute Indians, 
members of the Shaker Church. 
A singular feature of the material life of these Indians, to which 
attention may be called here in passing, has been observed in the fact 
that in former days they were actually hunting whales in the ocean 
instead of eating the meat of whales that drifted ashore. As far as 
our knowledge goes, the Nootka of Vancouver Island are the only 
other Indian tribe that ever engaged in the actual hunting of whales 
in the ocean. 
