North American Porcupine

Sep 17 1804

Clark: September 17, 1804

...of a Different Kind Seen to day,Great many Plumbs, rabits, Porcupines & barking Squrels, Capt Lewis Killed a rattle Snake in a village of the Squirel's and Saw a Hair ...

Apr 14 1805

Clark: April 14, 1805

... Sowed together with Sinues & deckerated with the tales, & Porcupine quils, when open it forms a half circle with a part about 4 Inches wide projecting about 8 or 9 In...

Apr 26 1805

Lewis: April 26, 1805

...te winter food to these anamals as well as the growse, the porcupine, hare, and rabbit. about 12 Olock I heard the discharge of several guns at the junction of the ri...

May 3 1805

Clark: May 3, 1805

...ance for Perogus & boats in high water. This river we call Porcupine from the great number of those anamals found about it's mouth.a Short distance above about 1/4 mi...

May 3 1805

Lewis: May 3, 1805

...n the 10th course of this day, we saw an unusual number of Porcupines from which we determined to call the river after that anamal, and accordingly denominated it Por...

May 4 1805

Lewis: May 4, 1805

...uch wished in order to fix the latitude of the entrance of Porcupine river. Joseph Fields was very sick today with the disentary had a high fever I gave him a doze of ...

May 30 1805

Lewis: May 30, 1805

...still higher on the N. side most probably as high as about Porcupine river and from thence upwards most probably as far as the mountains by the Minetares of Fort de Pr...

Aug 19 1805

Lewis: August 19, 1805

..., and collars of leather ornamented with the quills of the porcupine dyed of various colours among which I observed the red, yellow, blue, and black. the ear is purfor...

Aug 20 1805

Lewis: August 20, 1805

...a fring on the edges and ornimented with the quills of the Porcupine. the sides of the shirt are sewed deeply fringed, and ornamented in a similar manner from the bott...

Aug 21 1805

Lewis: August 21, 1805

...ersons with various figures wrought with the quills of the Porcupine. some of the dressey young men orniment the tops of their mockersons with the skins of polecats an...

Aug 23 1805

Lewis: August 23, 1805

...f wood, and are frequently ornamented with a stran wrought porcupine quills and sinues raped around them for some distance at both extremities. the bows of the bighor...

Feb 26 1806

Lewis: February 26, 1806

... it. in this rispect they are not much more fleet than the porcupine.

Feb 27 1806

Clark: February 27, 1806

...imal. in this respect they are not much more fleet than the porcupine.

Apr 3 1806

Lewis: April 3, 1806

...left on it, they have some collars of leather wrought with porcupine quills after the method of the Shoshonees. From this place Mount Hood bears S. 85 E. distant 40 m...

Apr 15 1806

Lewis: April 15, 1806

...sh and Shoshonees highly ornamented with the quills of the porcupine as are also their mockersons and legings. they conceal the parts of generation with the skin of a ...