ANTHROPOLOGICAL PAPERS
OF THE
American Museum of Natural History.
Vol. VI, Part I.

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE YAKIMA VALLEY.
BY
HARLAN I. SMITH.

NEW YORK:
Published by Order of the Trustees.
June, 1910.

Contents.

Page
[Introduction]7
[Geographical Description]9
[Archaeological Sites]11
[Resources]21
[The Securing of Food]23
[Points Chipped out of Stone]23
[Points Rubbed out of Stone]26
[Points Rubbed out of Bone]27
[Bows]29
[Snares]29
[Notched Sinkers]30
[Grooved Sinkers]30
[Shell Heaps]34
[Digging Sticks]35
[Basketry]35
[Preparation of Food]36
[Mortars]36
[Pestles]39
[Rollers]47
[Fish Knives]50
[Fire Making]50
[Caches]51
[Boiling]51
[Habitations]51
[Semi-subterranean House Sites]51
[Circles of Stones (Summer House Sites)]55
[Tools Used by Men]57
[Wedges]57
[Hammerstones]58
[Celts]62
[Hand-Adze]64
[Whetstones]65
[Drills]66
[Scrapers]67
[Arrow-shaft Smoothers]69
[Tools used by Women]69
[Scrapers Chipped from Stone]69
[Scrapers Rubbed from Bone]71
[Awls Rubbed from Bone]71
[Needles]72
[Mat-Pressers]73
[Processes of Manufacture]74
[Life Histories of Manufactured Objects]74
[War]75
[Implements used in Warfare]75
[Grooved Pebbles, Club-Heads, or Sinkers]75
[Stone Clubs]76
['Slave-Killers']80
[War Costume]82
[Fortifications]82
[Wounds]82
[Dress and Adornment]83
[Skins]83
[Matting]84
[Ornaments]87
[Combs]87
[Beads]88
[Dentalium Shells]90
[Pendants]92
[Bracelets]99
[A Costumed Human Figure]100
[Deformation]105
[Games, Amusements, and Narcotics]105
[Games]105
[Narcotics]106
[Art]117
[Paintings]119
[Petroglyphs]121
[Incised Designs]124
[Notches]130
[Circle and Dot Designs]130
[Pecked Grooves]132
[Animal and Human Forms]132
[Coast Art]136
[Method of Burial]138
[Burials in Domes of Volcanic Ash]138
[Rock-slide Graves]139
[Cremation Circles]142
[Position of the Body]142
[Property with the Dead]142
[Horse Sacrifices]143
[Diseases]143
[Conclusion]143
[Bibliography]149
[Appendix]152

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Plates.

[I.]Chipped Points. Fig. 1 (Museum No. 202-8333), length 21 cm.; Fig. 2 (202-8338); Fig. 3 (202-8334).
[II.]Chipped Points. Fig. 1 (Museum No. 202-8115), length 3.8 cm.; Fig. 2 (202-8169 A);
Fig. 3 (202-8196 A); Fig. 4 (202-8196 B); Fig. 5 (202-8142); Fig. 6 (202-8397); Fig. 7 (202-8366);
Fig. 8 (202-8363); Fig. 9 (202-8368); Fig. 10 (202-8361); Fig. 11 (202-8359); Fig. 12 (202-8222);
Fig. 13 (202-8203): Fig. 14 (202-8360).
[III.]Quarry near Naches River.
House Site near Naches River.
[IV.]House Sites near Naches River.
[V.]Camp Sites near Sentinal Bluffs.
[VI.]Fort near Rock Creek.
Rock-Slide Grave on Yakima Ridge.
[VII.]Terraced Rock-Slide on Yakima Ridge.
[VIII.]Rock-Slide Graves on Yakima Ridge.
[IX.]Cremation Circle near Mouth of Naches River.
Grave in Dome of Volcanic Ash near Tampico.
[X.]Opened Grave in Dome of Volcanic Ash near Tampico.
[XI.]Petroglyphs near Sentinal Bluffs.
[XII.]Petroglyphs in Selah Canon.
[XIII.]Petroglyph in Selah Canon.
Petroglyph near Wallula Junction.
[XIV.]Pictographs at Mouth of Cowiche Creek.
[XV.]Pictographs at Mouth of Cowiche Creek.
[XVI.]Pictographs at Mouth of Cowiche Creek.