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. 10. Rock-slide grave excavated June 2, 1903.
This grave was 150 feet up the hill from the Naches
River, half a mile above its mouth and on the north side.
It was 5 feet long by 6 feet wide and 4 feet deep and had
been disturbed and many of the bones thrown out. Dry
poles and cedar boards lay around the top. Numbers
99-4318, 202-8157 to 202-8169 were found in this grave.
99-4318. An adult skull and skeleton with abnormality on
right malor and with one rib expanded, part of a young
adult skeleton and part of a child's skeleton were found.
Some of the bones were bleached. The adult and the child
were on the bottom. These two bodies had been wrapped in
bark and placed in a hole one foot deep in the ground
below the slide. The adult's head was to the west
southwest. On top and to the east northeast was the young
adult. Human hair was also found in grave No. 10.
202-8157. Four parts of the hearth of a fire drill,
similar to that used in the Thompson River region. See
Teit, (a) p. 203, for descriptions of fire drills (See
also Fig. 38.)
202-8158. Wolf or dog bones, some of them bleached.
202-8159. Part of a decorated wooden bow (Fig. 114).
202-8160a, b. Two pieces of a basket. Doubtless of a
finer stitch than those from the Thompson River Indians.
See Teit, (a), Fig. 131a and Figs. 143 to 146.
202-8161. Piece of coarse coil basket with splint
foundation and bifurcated stitch (Fig. 17).
202-8162. Piece of a stitched rush mat (p. 86).
The bill of a saw-bill duck was found but not preserved.
202-8163. Copper tubes with six beads, short sections of
dentalium shells, which were found from the top to the
bottom of the grave. These beads were strung.
202-8164. Four bone tubes found near the bottom and
mostly to the east northeast of the grave.
202-8165. Point made of bone found to the west northwest
in grave (Fig. 7).
202-8166. A perforated cylinder made of steatite found at
about the center of the grave (Fig. 99).
202-8167. Fishbone.
202-8168. Three pieces of yellow jasper (raw material).
202-8169a, b, c. Three small arrow points, one found on
center, one in east northeast part and one in south of
grave. _a_ is of brownish fissile jasper (Plate II. Fig.
2).
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Grave No. 11. Rock-slide grave located on the north side
of the Naches River, a little over half a mile above its
mouth. The place is about 600 feet west southwest of
grave No. 10 and 150 feet above the river. It was 6 feet
by 4 feet in diameter and 4 feet deep. Apparently it had
been rifled as nothing was found in it except a skull and
a few bones.
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