Siwash house

Fur Trade, Pacific Coast, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the building or room in which Indians were received when bringing furs or other goods to trade.

Quotations

1965

. . . he shooed Jennie and little Louis off to the Siwash house (a log cabin on the foreshore reserved for visiting Indians). . . .