Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1895)
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology · Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off. · leaf 306
284 SALISHAN TRIBES OF THE PLATEAUS [RTH. ANN. 45 rarely of incidents in their lives. Pictures were also cut into the bark of trees, and some were burned into the wood of trees. (Fig. 25.) Flutes of wood and long bone whistles were worn on a string around the neck, and were used by young men at… … imitating the notes of birds and for serenading girls to whom they took a fancy. At a place called ‘Standing Rock” (or ‘where the stone sticks out’’) in Similkameen Valley, youths undergoing their training con-
Ethnology · Indians
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