The Archaeology of the Yakima ValleySmith, Harlan Ingersoll
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The Archaeology of the Yakima Valley
Smith, Harlan Ingersoll
Yakima River Valley (Wash.) -- Antiquities
202-8121. Sculptured handle of a digging stick made of
the horn of a Rocky Mountain sheep purchased of Mr. W. Z.
York, at Old Yakima, who bought it from an Indian woman
living near Union Gap below Old Yakima. She, however, may
have brought it from some other locality. (Fig. 126).
202-8122. Tubular steatite pipe (Fig. 104).
202-8123. Pestle made of stone. Presented by Mr. W. M.
Gray of North Yakima. Found where the Moxie Ditch enters
the flume, about 3 miles northeast of the mouth of the
Naches River and southeast of the Yakima River.
202-8124. Fragment of rock painted red. Part of a
pictograph showing a human figure with feather headdress
(Plate XIV, Fig. 1), taken from the basaltic cliffs
southeast of the Naches River above the mouth of Cowiche
Creek, about four miles northwest of North Yakima.
Several other pictographs were photographed here from the
north: Plate XV, Fig. 2 (44480, 4-5), white human heads
with feather headdresses and white and red double star
figure; Plate XIV, Fig. 2 (44483, 4-8), white human heads
with feather headdresses, also (44484, 4-9), Plate XV,
Fig. 1 (44485, 4-10); Plate XVI, Fig. 1 (44486, 4-11),
and Plate XVI, Fig. 2 (44487, 4-12), white and red human
heads with feather headdresses.
202-8125. Six parts of pebbles, from the surface of the
flat on the east side of the Yakima River at "The Upper
Gap" near the northern end of North Yakima, as samples of
what could have been used as material for arrow points.
[Illustration:
Miss Ruth B. Howe Delin.
Fig. 129. Sketch Map of the Yakima Valley. ]
Numbers 202-8126 to 202-8136 are from the quarry shown in
Plate III, Fig. 1 (44488, 5-1 from the south, 44489, 5-2,
and 44490, 5-3). This quarry is on the ridge top north of
the Naches River, about two miles above its mouth (p.
16).
202-8126. Stone, possibly a hammer.
202-8127. Two river pebbles used as stone hammers.
202-8128. Hammerstone (Fig. 40).
202-8129. Pebble used as a hammer.
202-8130. Fragment of a hammerstone, edge smooth.
202-8131. Two fragments of hammerstones.
202-8132. Four pieces of raw material for chipped
implements.
202-8133. Seven pieces of raw material for chipped
implements possibly waste from pieces blocked out to be
transported or possibly too small or of too poor a
quality to be transported.
202-8134. Two pieces of raw material, perhaps chipped.
202-8135. Two pieces of raw material, perhaps too poor to
be transported.
202-8136. Thirty pieces of raw material, some very good,
some very poor, all apparently waste of pieces blocked
out to be transported. No finished or broken implements
were found here.
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