He found the first stone shaped like a salmon head; the second like a kamas root, and the third, to his great joy, was the carven image of an elk's head.

He felt hungry, and made a hearty breakfast of the chestnut-like bulbs of the kamas root, and took a smoke.

It was his wife; and she told him he had been gone many, many yearsshe could not tell how many; that she had remained faithful and constant to him, and distracted her mind from the bitterness of sorrow by trading in kamas and magic herbs, and had thus acquired a genteel competence.

The graves of women were distinguished by a cap, a Kamas stick, or other implement of their occupation, and by articles of dress.