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
202-8145. Part of a point similar to 202-8143 and found
with it.
202-8146. Part of a point similar to 202-8143 and found
with it.
202-8147. Tube of rolled brass having the diameter of a
lead pencil. Proving this grave to have been made since
the prehistoric people were able to reach the whites in
trade.
202-8148. Tube similar to 202-8147 (Fig. 75).
202-8149. Charred tube made of bone about 1-1/4 inches
long.
202-8150. Tube similar to 202-8149 (Fig. 97).
202-8151. Scorched tube made of bone and ornamented by
incisions running from one end to the other in a spiral
course. The tube is charred and about 1-1/4 inches long
(Fig. 98).
202-8152. Slate disk perforated in the center and at each
side. The object is about 1 inch in diameter and 1/8 inch
thick (Fig. 77).
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Grave No. 2. Rock-slide grave, about 50 feet down the
ravine from grave No. 1 and about 40 feet above the
flume. It had grass growing in the center. The grave
seemed caved in and as if thoroughly walled like a well.
It contained nothing, apparently having been rifled.
Before excavation this seemed to be more like a grave
than No. 1. (See photograph taken from the southwest.)
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Grave No. 3. Rock-slide grave.
99-4314. Bleached skull and jaw of an adult purchased of
a boy who said it was from a rock-slide grave on the
north side of the Yakima Ridge lying east of the Yakima
River above the Upper Gap.
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Grave No. 4. Rock-slide grave about 6 feet southeast of
grave No. 5 at Selah Canon. As this grave had been opened
and the skeleton had been disturbed, no accurate
description as to its position can be given. Some of the
rock-slide material was quite large, weighing from 200 to
300 lbs; depth, 4 feet; diameter, 3 feet. Decayed wood
was found in the grave and long poles on the side of the
grave. The grave was probably not very old.
99-4315. Part of skull and skeleton of a youth which was
partly bleached. Found in Grave No. 4.
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