wappato

With her toes she pulled up the wappato from the bottom of the pond.

The Bird-Woman of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Katherine Chandler

The Indian women used to put some wappato in grass baskets and sell it to the tribes up the river. anx ious cheer ful view break ing dis tinct ly shores

The Bird-Woman of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Katherine Chandler

Soon after we encamped 3 Indians of the last town Came in a Canoe with wappato roots to Sell to us Some of which we purchased with fish hooksfrom the Village quite around this bend to the West the land is high and thickly timbered with pine balsom &c. a Short distance below the Calt har mer Village on the Island which is Opposit I observed

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

I therefore beleive this treat in their Charector proceeds from an avericious all grasping dis-position. in this respect they differ from all Indians I ever became acquainted with, for their dispositions invariably lead them to give what ever they are possessed off no matter how usefull or valueable, for a bauble which pleases their fancy, without Consulting its usefullness or value. nothing occured to day, or more So, than our wappato being all exhausted.

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

Small Chanel which passes from the Lower part of Image Canoe Island into an inlet which makes in from the S W. Side, and receves the water of a Creek which heads with the Kil a mox River. this wappato Island is about 18 or 20 Miles long and in places from 6 to 10 miles wide high & furtile with ponds on different parts of it in which the nativs geather

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

Crouding about the mens Shelters to day, we purchased a fiew wappato roots for which we gave armbans, & rings to the old Squar, those roots are equal to the Irish potato, and is a tolerable Substitute for bread

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

Gass returned with Collins and Windser they had not Succeeded in killing the female bear, tho they brought the three cub's with them. the Indians who visited us to day fancied those Petts and gave us wappato in exchange for them.

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

Clatsops, to whome they perpose bartering their wappato for the blubber

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

Same size but in the Side of the house in one Corner, one fire place and that near the opposit end; around which they have their beads raised about 4 feet from the fore which is of earth, under their beads they Store away baskets of dried fish Berries & wappato, over the fire they hang the flesh as they take them and which they do not make immediate use.

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

Sturgeon and a fiew wappato roots, I employd Those Indians to take up one of our Canoes which had been left by the first party that Came down, for which Service I gave them each a fishing hook of a large

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791