a miss understanding took place between Shabano one of our interpreters, and Jo. & R Fields
Some fiew were a Shirt of Dressed Skins and long legins & Mockersons Painted,
William Clark
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The Countrey about the forks is an open Plain on either Side I can observe at a distance on the lower Stard. Side a high ridge of Thinly timbered Countrey
worthey of remark that not one Stick of timber on the river near the frks and but a fiew trees for a great distance up the River we decended
-William Clark-
The photo of this Lewis & Clark re-enactment is dated 1922 and labeled as on the Snake River at Lewiston, Idaho. 'Sacajawea' is sitting in the second seat.
I think Lewis's River is about 250 yards wide, the Koos koos ke River about 150 yards wide and the river below the forks about 300 yards wide.
-William Clark-
The Clearwater comes in from the left (east) and the Snake River comes in from the south.
the dress of the men are a white Buffalow robe or Elk Skin dressed with Beeds which are generally white, Sea Shells—i e the Mother of Pirl hung to ther hair & on a pice of otter Skin about their necks hair Cewed in two parsels hanging forward over their Sholders, feathers, and different Coloured Paints which they find in their Countrey Generally white, Green & light Blue. Some fiew were a Shirt of Dressed Skins and long legins, & Mockersons Painted, which appears to be their winters dress, with a plat of twisted grass about their necks.
-William Clark-
The women dress in a Shirt of Ibex, or Skins which reach quite down to their anckles with a girdle, their heads heads are not ornemented, their Shirts are ornemented with quilled Brass, Small peces of Brass Cut into different forms, Beeds, Shells & curios bones &c.
-William Clark-
