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
Grave No. 5. Rock-slide grave in Selah Canon and about 6
feet northwest of grave No. 4. Apparently this grave had
been rifled. The adult skull lay to the west and was
broken. The skeleton was flexed, the feet were toward the
east and the knees south of the vertebrae, that is, the
skeleton was on the right side. The grave which was about
75 feet up the hillside, and 1-1/2 miles east of the
Yakima River on the south side of Selah Canon, was about
3-1/2 feet deep by 3-1/2 feet in diameter. Long poles lay
on the side of the grave while decayed wood, leather
thongs and dried flesh yet adhering to some of the bones,
in this kind of a grave even in such a dry region as
this, especially the last two, suggest the grave to be
recent.
99-4316. Jaw and skeleton of an adult. Found in grave No.
5.
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Grave No. 6. Rock-slide grave about 100 feet up the
hillside at the top of a rock-slide on a point south of
the Yakima River about 2 miles northeast and above the
mouth of the Naches River. The bones were found in
excavating an adjacent barren grave, 5 feet to the
northeast and had probably been thrown out of this one on
top of it. Pieces of cedar were scattered around the
grave, which had been rifled. Its depth was 5 feet,
diameter 5 feet.
99-4317. Skull and one hip bone of an adult. Probably
from grave No. 6.
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Grave No. 7. Rock-slide grave situated northeast of North
Yakima and about half a mile northeast of grave No. 6.
There is a road near the edge of the grave. The grave had
been rifled and pieces of wood were found lying near it;
the bones were scattered around and broken. None of them
were in anatomical order. Numbers 202-8153 to 202-8156
were found in this grave.
202-8153. One brass bell.
202-8154. Three glass beads.
202-8155. Two shell beads.
202-8156. Three dentalium shells.
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Grave No. 8. Rifled rock-slide grave. The skeleton which
had been wrapped in cedar bark had been taken away.
Nothing besides the cedar bark was found. The grave was
found near No. 7 and about a half mile northeast of No.
6. Wood was lying near by. There was a road near the edge
of the grave which had been rifled.
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Grave No. 9. Rock-slide grave found near No. 7 which was
situated about half a mile northeast of No. 6. The grave
contained nothing but charcoal. There was wood lying near
by. There was a road near the edge of the grave which had
been rifled.
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