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| | Clatsop County Reference Information - Seaside (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | Clatsop territory encompassed some 1100 square miles; its northern border, the Columbia River, extended upstream to the Tongue Point area, there forming an eastern border through the Coast Range wilderness to a border at the south running west to Tillamook Head; its western border, the Pacific Ocean, reached north to the mouth of the Columbia. |
 | | The Necanicum River, draining the south Clatsop region, nurtured groves of fir, spruce and pine, a rich groundcover including salal, kinnikinnik, wapato and camass, interspersed with meadows and berry thickets. |
 | | Skulls identify these people as Clatsop Flatheads--so called because of their sloping foreheads, a result of their practice of binding the infant across its brow with a strong piece of bark or wood that was tied firmly at both ends to the cradleboard. |
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