Their noses are broad and flat at top, and fleshy at the end, with large nostrils.

They have wide mouths, thick lips, and short, irregular and dirty teeth.

Indeed good teeth are seldom to be seen among the tribes west of the Rocky Mountains, who live simply on fish.
In the early stages of their intercourse with white men, these savages were but scantily clad.

In summer time the men went entirely naked; in the winter and in bad weather the men wore a small robe, reaching to the middle of the thigh, made of the skins of animals, or of the wool of the mountain sheep.

Occasionally, they wore a kind of mantle of matting, to keep off the rain but, having thus protected the back and shoulders, they left the rest of the body naked.
The women wore similar robes, though shorter, not reaching below the waist; besides which, they had a kind of petticoat, or fringe, reaching from the waist to the knee, formed of the fibres of cedar bark, broken into strands, or a tissue of silk grass twisted and knotted at the ends.
This was the usual dress of the women in summer; should the weather be inclement, they added a vest of skins, similar to the robe.
The men carefully eradicated every vestige of a beard, considering it a great deformity.