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hunting territory, and in fact all the land, belonged to the entire 
band, although a few families laid claim to certain fishing places, and 
to certain fences erected for deer hunting. The home and the furni- 
ture belonged to the wife, and descended to her daughters; the canoe, 
Winter undergroinul liouse of the Tlionipson River liuliaiis. (Photo hy courtesy of 
the American Museum of Natural History.) 
weapons, and tools of the husband passed to the sons. Every family 
had a stock of hereditary names, and while fathers generally chose 
names for their children from their own family lists, not infrequently 
they selected them from the mothers’. 
The dwellings themselves would have suggested a vast difference 
between these interior tribes and the Salishan people at the mouth 
of the Fraser. In place of the long, shed-like structures divided into 
stalls for twenty or thirty families, the winter home of the interior 
people was a circular, semi-subterranean house, not more than forty 
or forty-five feet in diameter, that was entered by a ladder from the 
roof;^ and the summer home was an oblong or conical lodge covered 
1 See the iil:in in part I, p. 92. 
