klootchman

As she beached, I greeted her with extended eager hands to assist her ashore, for the klootchman is getting to be an old woman; albeit she paddles against tide-water like a boy in his teens.

Legends of Vancouver 1911

A _klootchman_ we had not noticed before looked up, and said mournfully, "No," it was her "little woman."

Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Caroline C. Leighton

The medicine man told his klootchman and his children to climb up the arrow trail.

The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier' John H. Williams

Then the medicine man and his klootchman and the children climbed out of the cloud and came down the mountain side.

The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier' John H. Williams

Sometimes I see him at night, going out with his _klootchman_ in their little canoe; she, crouched in her scarlet blanket at one end, holding the dark sail, and the great yellow moon shining on them.

Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Caroline C. Leighton

A "ship's _klootchman_" (wife or woman), he said it was, and a "_hyas_ [big] ship" must have gone down.

Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Caroline C. Leighton

They were friends until Peter got married, and then the trouble began, because they both wanted the same klootchman.

Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope

When we started the next morning, she came down to the canoe with the little _klootchman_, loaded with presents, which she carried in

Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Caroline C. Leighton

Unless it be that the more voluptuous Indian works every day of his weary, aimless life, spends nothing, and hoards the residual balance like a miser, lives on the old man before marriage, and on his klootchman after, we are unable to arrive at a solution.

Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope

So he and his little _klootchman_, about as big as a child of ten, took us off.

Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Caroline C. Leighton