Clearwater River at Canoe Camp

we purchase fresh Salmon of the Indians
William Clark

we went about helving our axes and git in readiness to begin the canoes.
Joseph Whitehouse

Calm, clear waters of a ride river

Photo date: September 20, 2008. Some modern artifacts have been obscured.

Clearwater River near Canoe Camp

We had a clear pleasant morning,
Joseph Whitehouse

Large, round rocks on a dry channel of the Clearwater River

Photo date: October 2, 2010. Some modern artifacts have been obscured.

Butterfly Belt Axe

I had the axes distributed and handled and men apotned. [apportioned] ready to commence building canoes on tomorrow, our axes are Small & badly Calculated to build Canoes of the large Pine,
William Clark

Head of an old axe designed to be carried in a belt

From the personal collection of Bud Clark.

Rocky Mountain Sheep skin
(Oreamnos americanus)

There appears to be a kind of sheep in this country, besides the Ibex or mountain sheep, and which have wool on. I saw some of the skins, which the natives had, with wool four inches long, and as fine, white and soft as any I had ever seen.
John Ordway

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Long, white fur