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
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Grave No. 29. Rock-marked grave located on a plateau
above Wenas Creek near its mouth and about seven miles
north of North Yakima. The rocks marking the grave
covered a space 6 feet by 4 feet and extended down to the
skeleton which was very much broken but not decomposed.
No objects other than some charcoal were found in this
grave.
All the other graves in the vicinity of the mouth of
Wenas Creek seem to have been rifled.
202-8198. Broken ulna of a deer found at the mouth of
Wenas Creek about 7 miles north of North Yakima.
Numbers 202-8199 to 202-8204 were found on the surface at
the mouth of Wenas Creek.
202-8199. Small chipped point made of red jasper.
202-8200a-c. Three chipped points made of white chert.
202-8201. Broken and burned chipped point made of white
chert.
202-8202. Broken triangular chipped point made of white
chert.
202-8203. Chipped point made of reddish white chert
(Plate II. Fig. 13).
202-8204 a, b. Two chipped pieces of white chalcedony.
Numbers 202-8205a-e to 202-8206f were found in the valley
of Wenas Creek, on the surface near where the trail from
North Yakima to Ellensburg crosses the creek, about 7
miles north of North Yakima.
202-8205a-e. Five pieces of agate of reddish or amber
color.
202-8205f. Agate of whitish color
202-8206a. A chip of stone.
202-8206b-e. Four pieces of stone.
202-8206f. Chip of stone.
Numbers 202-8207 to 202-8209 were found on the surface at
the mouth of Wenas Creek.
202-8207. Pestle made of stone.
202-8208. Pestle made of stone.
202-8209. Broken pebble, battered on the side.
202-8210. Fragment of a pestle made of stone of nearly
square cross section. Found on the surface three miles
north of Clemen's ranch, on Wenas Creek where the trail
from North Yakima to Ellensburg crosses.
202-8211. Pestle found about 28 miles north of North
Yakima, on the trail to Ellensburg. It was in a dry creek
in "Kittitass" Canon. This canon is probably the
Manastash not the "Kittitass," as we were told.
ELLENSBURG.
202-8212. Base of a triangular chipped point made of
jasper found on the surface near the town reservoir on
the ridge east of Ellensburg.
Numbers 202-8213 to 202-8222 were found on the surface of
the bottom land west of Cherry Creek, near Ellensburg.
The place was a village site and is on the farm of Mr.
Bull near where an east and west road crosses the creek,
and opposite where the creek touches on the east, the
west base of the upland. At this point the creek comes up
to the upland from the lowland to the north (p. 12).
202-8213. Chipped boulder.
202-8214. Notched boulder, or net sinker.
202-8215. Battered pebble.
202-8216. Four burned stones.
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