Clackamas Chinook

Clackamas Chinook (HM25IG)

Location: Oregon City, OR 97045 Clackamas County
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Country: United States of America
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N 45° 21.862', W 122° 35.682'

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An Artist Encounter With the First Peoples of the Oregon City Area

About four miles below Oregon City the Klackamass enters the Walhamettee: and, seated below the banks at its mouth, I saw a party of Indians of the Klackamass tribe, and I put ashore for the purpose of taking a sketch of them.
They were busy gambling at one of their favorite games. Two were together on skins, and immediately opposite the sat two others, several trinkets and ornaments being placed between them. for which they played.
The game consisted in one of them having his hands covered with a small round mat resting on the ground. He has four small sticks in his hands, which he disposes under the mat in certain positions, requiring the opposite party to guess how he placed them.
If he guesses right, the mat is handed around to the next, and a stick is stuck up on the opposite side as a mark against him. This, like almost all Indian games, was accompanied with singing: but in this case the singing was peculiarly sweet and wild, possessing a harmony I never heard before or since amongst Indians. — Paul Kane, 1847
Artist Paul Kane traveled North America in the 1840's and extensively painted the Native Americans and early towns such as Oregon City. He later published his journal and paintings.
From Harper J. Russell, ed. Paul Kane's Frontier: Including Wandering of an Artist Among



the Indians of North America, by Paul Kane, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1971.
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HM NumberHM25IG
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Placed ByEnd of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center
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Date Added Friday, February 16th, 2018 at 10:01am PST -08:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)10T E 531740 N 5023508
Decimal Degrees45.36436667, -122.59470000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 45° 21.862', W 122° 35.682'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds45° 21' 51.72" N, 122° 35' 40.92" W
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Area Code(s)503
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Closest Postal AddressAt or near 1726 Washington St, Oregon City OR 97045, US
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