PUGET SOUND • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Puget Sound

... south-east and of the west reveal the shortest statures. The whole Mississippi valley was occupied by tall peoples. The Athapascans of New Mexico are of middle stature, the Pueblo peoples are short. The Shoshoni, Shahaptin and Salish tribes are of middle stature; on the coast of British Columbia, Puget Sound, in Oregon, and northern California, are the shortest of all the North Americans save the Eskimo, while among them, on the Columbia, are taller tribes. The comparison of cranial indexes is rendered difficult by intentional ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... Puget Sound all the forms obtain in different localities. Among the Makuh of Cape Flattery the graves are covered with a sort of box, rudely constructed of boards, and elsewhere on the Sound the same method is adopted in some cases, ...

— A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians • H.C. Yarrow