Unusual loan into ?Cowlitz

[David Robertson]

Embarrassingly, I've misplaced the information on where I ran across this, 
but it may be worth posting anyway.  

I think it's Cowlitz Salish (spoken originally near Vancouver, Washington) 
that has been said (in the source I can't seem to find now) to have 
borrowed a word for "pipe"/"tobacco" via Nez Perce.  The source seemed to 
be saying that the word "calumet" supplied both the Nez Perce and Cowlitz 
terms.  

I've got a handwritten note I made of the NP form (<kelamut>).  

Kinkade's Cowlitz dictionary has /q'walem'Ltn'/ (stressed "e", 
voiceless "l", glottalized "m" & "n").  But Kinkade has this as a native 
root /q'wali/ "smoke".  If the Cowlitz item really is influenced 
by "calumet", maybe some reanalysis took place to make the word more 
Salish, so to speak?

Kuipers' etymological dictionary of Salish has this as an ancient Salish 
root.  

In Johnson's dissertation I see that Lee & Frost (1844) and Cox (1832) had 
a Chinook Jargon form like "olumbo" for "pipe".  Could that have been a 
version of this?

Anyone have enough Nez Perce information to help unravel this puzzle?  

It would be interesting to find that "calumet" had been somewhat widely 
used in the far Pacific Northwest.

--Dave R

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