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Show Gathering Wapatoo Root On Wapatoo island CO years at'o, in the fall of the year, the last of the Multnomahs harvested their strange crop. To reach the finest plants, productive pro-ductive of the largest tubers, the laughing, gossiping squaws waded breast-deep in the bright waters, says Vature Magazine. They drew behind them a smali canoe, and with their hare, brown feet they freed the roots if the wapatoo. Up from the ooze they plucked it. ivith its leaves so like a broad arrowhead, arrow-head, and as they stripped It of its tubers they cast these Into the canoe until the craft was heav. laden. Of the tubers they made a kind of (lour that was stored for winter, and. too. they feasted on the fresh wapatoo. boiled or roasted. |