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Show 126 BASIS OP AMERICAN HISTORY [ 1800 that river, and extended but a short distance north and south on either side of its entrance to the sea. y^^ tie general culture of the Chinook was much y^ like that of the coast tribes farther north, especially in those phases which concerned their industrial life. vThe clan organization had, however, disappeared, and the mythology and religion began to take on new elements which showed the influence of Cali-fornian neighbors. \ The physical type is still the northern, with the heavy, broad face and short, thick- set body. N The prevalent custom of deforming the head of infants by fronto- occipital pressure was practised universally by the Chinook, and they with their neighbors of Puget Sound may be regarded as the stronghold of the practice. It was in vogue as far south as the Yakonan family of tribes along the Oregon coast, where an intrusion of Athapascan stock occurs and the custom disappears. \ The most important legacy of the coast Chinook is the Chinook jargon or trade language, which sprang up as a medium of intercourse between the whites and Indians and is a compound of Chinook words with English, French, and Spanish, all modified to meet the needs of pronunciation of the different peoples using it. xlt has now spread north as far as Alaska, south into California, eastward to the peoples beyond the Coast Range, and along natural routes of communication, such as the Columbia, the Fraser, etc., to points far inland. |