The Indians of Puget sound examines the indigenous settlement and complex marine-oriented culture situated within the sheltered inland waterways and dense cedar forests of western Washington's coastal basin. Haeberlin and Gunther detail how the region's dynamic marine and riparian topography—specifically the extensive tidal mudflats, the sprawling river deltas, and the navigable, glacially carved fjords of the Salish Sea—strictly dictated the margins of seasonal migration, resource gathering, and inter-tribal commerce. By mapping the network of large cedar-plank winter villages anchored securely at strategic river mouths and protected coves, the narrative highlights how this specific estuarine geography tethered the tribes' profound reliance on abundant salmon runs and massive timber. Ultimately, this anthropological record serves as a localized spatial history, demonstrating how the rich marine abundance, intricate waterborne transit corridors, and towering botanical scale of this Pacific Northwest basin fundamentally shaped the deeply rooted, maritime and riverine-dependent character of the Coast Salish peoples.

Indians of North America, Indians of North America Washington (State) Puget Sound, Pacific Ocean Puget Sound

"Originally printed in the Zeitschrift für ethnologie, jahrgang 1924, heft 1-4".--Pref"The tribes which are the most fully described in these notes are the Snohomish, the Snuqualmi and the Nisqually. There is some information about ... other ... groups."

"Originally printed in the Zeitschrift für ethnologie, jahrgang 1924, heft 1-4".--Pref"The tribes which are the most fully described in these notes are the Snohomish, the Snuqualmi and the Nisqually. There is some information about ... other ... groups."