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
202-8366. Chipped arrow point made of pale fulvous
chalcedony (Plate II, Fig. 7).
202-8367. Chipped arrow point.
202-8368. Chipped arrow point made of opaline whitish
chalcedony (Plate II, Fig. 9).
202-8369. Chipped arrow point made of chalcedony (Fig.
1).
202-8370. Point for a drill chipped from chert (Fig. 48).
202-8371. Scraper chipped from petrified wood (Fig. 49).
202-8372. Scraper chipped from agate (Fig. 50).
202-8373. Scraper chipped from chalcedony (Fig. 51).
202-8374. Chipped piece of chalcedony.
202-8375. Chipped piece of petrified wood.
202-8376. Flake of stone.
202-8377. Flake of stone.
202-8378a. Piece of antler showing knife marks.
202-8378b. Part of a wedge made of antler.
202-8379. A piece of antler that has been whittled.
202-8380a, b, c. Three pieces of antler.
202-8381. Bleached barb for a fish spear made of bone
(Fig. 12).
202-8382. Six clam shells from the Columbia River.
202-8383. Seventeen clam shells from the old shell bed
shown in Plate V, Fig. 1.
202-8384. Four shell disks found among the refuse of a
rock-slide grave near the head of Priest Rapids (Fig.
76).
202-8385. One dentalium shell found among the refuse of a
rock-slide grave near the head of Priest Rapids.
202-8386. Pendant made of haliotis shell, triangular in
form, perforated at the most acute corner. This shell
came from the Pacific Coast. Found in the grave of a
child in a rock-slide near the head of Priest Rapids west
of the Columbia River near the home of Mr. Craig (Fig.
89). Numbers 202-8387 to 202-8390 were also found here.
202-8387a, b, c, d. Vertebrae of a fish.
202-8388. Pendant made of a shell probably a young
_Pectunculus gigantea_. The hinge side has been smoothed
off (Fig. 88).
202-8389. Three dentalium shells.
202-8390. Twenty-eight shell disks or beads.
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Grave No. 38. A rock-slide grave located on the east side
of the escarpment that runs south to the Columbia River
about two miles southwest of Mr. Craig's house near the
head of Priest Rapids. Stones were heaped up over this
grave and sticks about 6 feet long were standing up and
extended from the earth above the skeleton to 3 feet
above the surface. Numbers 99-4333 and 202-8391 to
202-8392 were found in the grave.
99-4333. An adult skeleton was found at a depth of 3 feet
from the top of the rock heap. The head was east. The
skeleton was flexed and it was lying on the left side.
202-8391. Stitched rush matting, probably recent, found
in contact with the skin on this skeleton (Fig. 70). Part
was of the stitch shown in Fig. 71.
202-8392. A roll of birch bark.
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