Clothing and Facial Characteristics

On March 19th, 1806, Meriwether Lewis wrote about the various groups of the Lower Columbia:

The Killamucks, Clatsops, Chinnooks, Cathlahmahs and Wâ:c' ki-a-cums resemble each other as well in their persons and dress as in their habits and manners. - their complexion is not remarkable, being the usual copper brown of most of the tribes of North America. they are low in statue reather diminutive, and illy shapen; possessing thick broad flat feet, thick ankles, crooked legs wide mouths thick lips, nose moderately large, fieshey, wide at the extremity with large nostrils, black eyes and black coarse hair. their eyes are sometimes of a dark yellowish brown the puple black. I have observed some high acqualine noses among them but they are extreemly rare. the nose is generally low between the eyes. - (Lewis, from Moulton V.6, 432)

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