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xery few, but used home-made stools and benches or sat ou the ground. 

 The women especially are very much accustomed to sit on the ground, 

 €r on their mats, or on the floor. 



Matting, carpet, and floor-coverings. — They use nothing in the form of 

 carpeting. They often lay their mats on the floor or ground, on which 

 they store their things, eat, or sit, but do not use them as carpeting. 



BacTcs and other protections for food. — Most of them have a small cup- 

 board five or six feet high and two or three feet wide, without any door. 

 Their flour is generally kept in the sack, the salmon in bundles or 

 baskets, and much of their other food in baskets or sacks, or small 

 amounts in cupboards. Their dishes are generally kept in the cup- 

 boards. 



Tables. — The Government carpenter has made plain, unpainted tables 

 for most of the summer houses, on which they eat, seldom, if ever, using 

 a table-cloth. In their winter houses they use very few tables, eitlier 

 placing the food on a mat or eating from the vessel in which it is cooked, 

 sometimes eating singly and sometimes together. 



E. — Miscellaneous — Furniture. 



Brooms, fly -'brushes, urinals, others not mentioned. — A number of them 

 liave American brooms, and a few use them considerably, becoming 

 somewhat neat, but with most of them there is very much, room for 

 improvement. They also sometimes make a temporary broom from fir 

 and cedar boughs. There is nothing else under this head of any im- 

 portance which is used. 



^ 'i.-— VESSELS AND UTENSILS. 



a. — Natural material. 



Mineral material. — They make no pottery or wares from clay, nor am 

 I aware that they make any utensils from stone or of metallic material. 



Vegetable material. — Maple and laurel are used in making spoons, cedar 

 roots in making water-tight baskets, cedar boughs in making common 

 carrying-baskets; also, one kind of swamp-grass forms the chief mate- 

 rial for one kind of carrying-basket. Small grasses of black, yellow, 

 and slate colors are used for beauty in the water-tight baskets. Eushes 

 or cattail are used in making mats. 



Animal material. — Cattle-horns are used in making large spoons, and 

 clam-shells are occasioually used as drinking-dishes or spoons without 

 any manufacture. 



A. — Vessels for holding and carrying water, food, etc. 



Gourds, dug-outs, bladders, and funnels. — Xone. 



Bottles, jugs, jars, bowls. — All of these are used, and are of American 

 manufacture. 

 Boxes. — Boxes of all shapes and sizes are in use, chiefly of American 



