Wednesday March 19th 1806.

It continued to rain and hail today in such a manner that nothing further could be done to the canoes.

we gave Comowooll alias Connia, a cirtificate of his good conduct..
Meriwether Lewis

Wednesday March 19th 1806.

the most remarkable trait in their physiognomy is the peculiar flatness and width of the forehead which they artificially obtain by compressing the head between two boards while in a state of infancy and from which it never afterwards perfectly recovers.
-Meriwether Lewis-

Wednesday March 19th 1806.

the large or apparently swolen legs particularly observable in the women are obtained in a great measure by tying a cord tight around the ankle.    their method of squating or resting themselves on their hams which they seem from habit to prefer to siting
-Meriwether Lewis-

Wednesday March 19th 1806.

a mat is sometimes temperarily thrown over the sholders to protect them from rain.
they have no other article of cloathing whatever neither winter nor summer.
and every part except the sholders and back is exposed to view.
-Meriwether Lewis-

Wednesday March 19th 1806.

They [the Chinook] are also fond of a species of wampum which is furnished them by a trader whom they call Swipton. it seems to be the native form of the shell without any preperation.
-Meriwether Lewis-

Wednesday March 19th 1806.

these are woarn in the same manner in which the beads are; and furnish the men with their favorite ornament for the nose.
one of these shells is passed horizontally through the cartilage of the nose and serves frequently as a kind of ring to prevent the string which suspends other ornaments at the same part from chafing and freting the flesh
-Meriwether Lewis-

Wednesday March 19th 1806.

both males and females wear braslets on their wrists of copper brass or Iron in various forms.
-Meriwether Lewis-