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.
202-8217. Gritstone, probably a whetstone.
202-8218. Pebble.
202-8219. Unio shells.
202-8220. Six chips.
202-8221. Scraper chipped from chalcedony ([Fig. 52]).
202-8222. Chipped point of heart shape made of clove brown jasper. ([Plate II, Fig. 12]).
Grave No. 30. Stone circle located on the crest of a western extension of the Saddle Mountains on Mr. Bull's farm, east of Cherry Creek and about seven miles south of Ellensburg. The place is east of the village site above-mentioned which is on the bottom land along the west side of the creek at this point. A circular ring of stones, 10 feet in diameter marked the grave. Smaller stones and earth in the middle extended 3 feet 6 inches down to the skeleton. No objects were found except a plentiful supply of charcoal.
99-4325. The bones of an adult human skeleton which appeared as if it had been flexed were found very much out of anatomical order. It lay northeast and southwest in the southeast part of the grave. There was a large hole in the right frontal of the skull which lay facing the northwest. The lower jaw was found on top of the skull with its angle east. Fragments of the tibiae were blackened by fire.
Grave No. 31. Rock-slide grave located in the rock-slide on the west side of the bluff, a western extension of the Saddle Mountains, east of Cherry Creek and about half a mile southwest of Mr. Bull's house. One small piece of decayed wood was found projecting above the rock-slide, and it was the only indication of the grave, there being no cavity over it. Among the rocks, four more posts were found, one at each corner of the grave. These had evidently rotted off even with the surface, having formerly, no doubt, extended above it. The depth of the grave was from 2 to 3 feet, according to the slope of the hill. Numbers 99-4326 and 202-8223 to 202-8228 were found in this grave.
99-4326. Skeleton of a child with anchylosed neck vertebrae. Some of the bones were bleached. The bones were very much displaced, the skull being found in the middle of the grave and some of the vertebrae being found near the surface, but most of the bones were around the skull. The body dressed and wrapped in matting had been placed between four large boulders.
202-8223. Fragments of leather or skin clothing.
202-8224. Dentalium shells.
202-8225. Glass beads.
202-8226. Three bracelets made of iron ([Fig. 96]).
202-8227. A bone disk with central perforation ([Fig. 80]).
202-8228. A bit of a fresh water shell.
Grave No. 32. Rock-slide grave located about 30 feet south southwest of grave No. 31 and in the same rock-slide. It had the same characteristics but had evidently been disturbed, the skull being missing. No artifacts were found in the grave.
99-4327. Adult skeleton without skull and some bones of a little child. The bones of an adult were found in a heap except the vertebrae which lay extended full length; cervical vertebrae to the north. The bones of one ankle, a tibia, and fibula were diseased. The cervical vertebrae are anchylosed; and one of the ribs is abnormal. The bones of the knees are partly bleached. The bones of the child being found between the ribs and the pelvis suggest that it was foetal.
Grave No. 33. Rock-slide grave located 40 feet south southwest from grave No. 31 in the same rock-slide with it. There was nothing on the surface to indicate this grave, but below the surface of the slide on the upper side of the grave, were three rows of sticks, about 3 feet long, standing vertically and close to each other. These seemed to be so placed that they would prevent the slide from further movement towards the grave. The grave cavity was 5 feet south southeast by 4 feet east northeast and 4 feet deep on one side, 3 feet on the other, or averaging about 3-½ feet deep, and extending into the soil below the slide. Numbers 99-4328 and 202-8229 to 202-8230 were found in this grave.
99-4328. In the bottom of the grave the skeleton of a youth was found. It was in good condition, lying on its back, facing west, but having rolled westward. The legs were flexed so that the femora lay at right angles or to the southeast of the pelvis, and the tibiae and fibulae lay parallel to them. The arms lay extended at the sides of the body with the hands on the pelvis. Three of the arm bones and one pelvis bone are stained by copper. The tibia of a child was found with these.
202-8229. Mat of twined rushes found under the pelvis. The rushes were stitched together in pairs with cord and each pair was twisted once between each stitch ([Fig. 71]).
202-8230. Open twine matting of rushes held together with cords woven around them, skin with hair on it, and in this were copper beads strung with beads made of dentalium shells on a leather thong ([Fig. 72]).
Grave No. 34. Rock-slide grave found 5 feet south southwest of grave No. 32. There were no surface indications of the grave. Posts of decayed wood were found extending from the surface down to about 6 inches from the bottom. The tops appeared to have been cut off and probably never extended above the surface. Numbers 99-4329 and 202-8231 to 202-8246 were found in this grave.
99-4329. The skeleton of a young child with a persistent frontal suture was found at a depth of from 3 to 4 feet with the head east, trunk on back, femora at right angles to tibiae, and fibulae parallel to them, flexed to left or south.
202-8231. Skin with the hair on found on body.
202-8232. Matting.
202-8233. Several rows of beads, some of copper, others of glass and still others of sections of dentalium shells were found at the neck, arms and legs. These are strung on pieces of thong, some of which are wound at the ends. Some of them are on coarse twisted, and others on fine twisted plant fibre ([Fig. 74]).
202-8234a, b. Two pendants made of haliotis shell were found, one near the head and one at the pelvis ([Fig. 91]).
202-8235a, b. Two copper pendants were found at the legs, b has a thong in the perforation.
202-8236a-d. Four bracelets made of copper found on the arms ([Fig. 95]).
202-8237. Teeth of a rodent found in the grave.
202-8238. A square pendant made of copper with a thong and bead made of copper ([Fig. 78]).
202-8239. A pendant made of copper ([Fig. 83]).
202-8240. A bit of wood bounding a knot hole.
202-8241. Two dentalium shells.
202-8242. A piece of iron.
202-8243. Woodpecker feathers, some bound at the tips with fabric, one with feather, and fur or moss.
202-8244. A copper ornament found among the rocks over this grave about 1 foot deep.
202-8245. A pendant made of brass with thong and bead made of copper found among the rocks over this grave about 1 foot deep ([Fig. 84]).
202-8246. A pendant made of copper with thong found about 1 foot deep among the rocks over this grave ([Fig. 82]).
Grave No. 35. Rock-slide grave located in the same slide with Nos. 31, 32, 33 and 34, 8 feet to the south southwest of No. 34. The grave was 3 feet in diameter by 4 feet deep. Four posts of poplar were found at the corners of this grave but these did not show above the surface being decayed down to within 6 or 8 inches of the ground under the rock-slide. Sticks had also been used to mark this grave on the surface. Numbers 99-4330 and 202-8247 to 202-8249 were found in this grave.
99-4330. The skeleton of a youth was found resting on its back with the head to the east, arms at the sides, legs flexed at right angles, i.e., to the north. Two buttons, one of bone and one of pearl, or shell, and a bridle bit were found in the grave, but were discarded.
202-8247. A bit of shell.
202-8248. Thirteen cones made of iron ([Fig. 86]).
202-8249. Two pendants made of iron ([Fig. 85]).
Grave No. 36. A rock-enclosure burial located on the hill south of Mr. Bull's house near the gap south of Ellensburg and about 300 feet north of grave No. 30. This burial was the southwestern of a group of eight, all very close together and of which the southern circular enclosure of five had been rifled although the three oblong enclosures were intact. There were traces of human bones in all of the eight enclosures. The enclosure to the north contained a skeleton that had been burned. No. 36 differed from No. 30 in that the stones did not extend below the surface.
99-4331. At a depth of 3 feet, in the grave pit 5 feet by 3 feet was the skeleton of an adult lying with the head north, face east, on the left side, arms extended to pelvis, legs flexed to left, i.e., to east. No specimens were found in this enclosure.
Grave No. 37. A rock-slide grave was located about 10 feet west of grave No. 35 and was similar to it in general character. Numbers 99-4332 and 202-8250 to 202-8258 were found in this grave.
99-4332. The very much decomposed skeleton of a child was found here. The broken skull was preserved.
202-8250a, b. Two fragments of antler, perhaps part of an implement found about 1 inch above the pelvis.
202-8251. A triangular copper object with two perforations found inside the skull.
202-8252. A pendant or nose ornament made of haliotis shell and stained pink in places found on the lower jaw ([Fig. 92]).
202-8253. Dentalium shells.
202-8254. A long shell pendant with two perforations.
202-8255. A pendant made of haliotis shell bearing a pink stain with a perforation and part of a second perforation ([Fig. 90]).
202-8256. A long shell pendant with one perforation.
202-8257a, b. Two triangular objects made of shell.
202-8258. Pieces of shell found near the lower jaw.
Priest Rapids.
202-8259. One pebble showing use at the end as a pestle. Found on the surface of the divide 25 miles east of Ellensburg, and about 15 miles west of Mr. Craig's house near the head of Priest Rapids.
202-8260a, b. Pieces of a pestle made of part of a column of basalt, with the corners rounded by pecking. Found on the surface at the head of Priest Rapids on the west side of the river.
202-8261. A pestle made by rounding the edges of a piece of a basaltic column. Found on the surface of the west bank of the Columbia River 8 miles above Mr. Craig's house, which is at the head of Priest Rapids.
Numbers 202-8262 to 202-8266 were found on the surface near the head of Priest Rapids.
202-8262. A pestle or part of a pestle.
202-8263. A river pebble partly pecked into the form of a pestle ([Fig. 22]).
202-8264. The end of a pestle having a large striking head.
202-8265. Part of a stone pestle.
202-8266. Pestle formed by rounding the corners of a small basaltic column.
202-8267. to 202-8290. Numbers 202-8267 to 202-8290 are pestles made of stone found on the surface near the head of Priest Rapids ([Fig. 21], 202-8281).
Numbers 202-8291 to 202-8295 were found on the surface near the head of Priest Rapids.
202-8291. Part of a pestle made of stone.
202-8292a. A pebble battered on each end ([Fig. 41]).
202-8292b. Pebble, one side of which has been used as a mortar.
202-8293. Part of a mortar made of stone.
202-8294. Part of a mortar.
202-8295. Disk-shaped boulder, one side of which is notched opposite a natural notch. Possibly this has been a net sinker similar to the following.
Numbers 202-8296 to 202-8334 were found on the surface of the bank of the Columbia River near the head of Priest Rapids.
202-8296. River pebble. Such pebbles were made into sinkers for fish nets. See 202-8310 and adjacent catalogue numbers ([Fig. 13a]).
202-8297. Scraper or knife made of a river pebble one side of which is chipped ([Fig. 55]).
202-8298. River pebble of disk shape, partly chipped.
202-8299. River pebble of disk shape, partly chipped on two edges.
202-8300. River pebble of disk shape, partly chipped on one edge.
202-8301. River pebble of disk shape, partly chipped on two edges.
202-8302. River pebble of disk shape, partly chipped on four edges ([Fig. 53]).
202-8303. River pebble, partly chipped.
202-8304. River pebble of disk shape, chipped around the edge from one side only.
202-8305. Disk-shaped river pebble, chipped around the edge from both sides.
202-8306. Disk-shaped river pebble, chipped in two places, opposite each other from both sides, and at a place equi-distant from these two from only one side.
202-8307. Scraper or knife chipped from a pebble ([Fig. 54]).
202-8308. Chipped pebble.
202-8309 to 202-8322. Numbers 202-8309 to 202-8322 are oblong flat river pebbles with a notch chipped in the edge at each end from both sides. They are probably sinkers for fish nets. (202-8313, see [Fig. 13c]; 202-8318, see [Fig. 13b]).
202-8323 to 202-8325. Numbers 202-8323 to 202-8325 are oval flat river pebbles with pieces chipped from the edges in several places.
202-8326. Flat oval river pebble with pieces chipped from both sides of the edge at five places, probably a sinker for a fish net.
202-8327. Flat disk-shaped pebble with four notches about equi-distant around the edge, and chipped from each side, probably a sinker for a fish net.
202-8328. Oval river pebble with four notches chipped in the edge nearly equi-distant from each other, probably a sinker for a fish net.
202-8329. Oval flat river pebble with four notches chipped in the edge from both sides, and about equi-distant from each other, probably a sinker for a fish net.
202-8330. Oval flat river pebble with four notches chipped in the edge from both sides, and about equi-distant from each other, probably a sinker for a fish net ([Fig. 13d]).
202-8331. Half of a stone ring, probably a sinker for a fish net.
202-8332. Boulder in which groove is partly pecked, probably a net sinker or anchor.
202-8333. Large chipped implement made of basalt ([Plate I, Fig. 1]).
202-8334. Large chipped form made of white chert ([Plate I, Fig. 3]).
Numbers 202-8335 to 202-8383 were found on the surface near the head of Priest Rapids.
202-8335. Chipped form.
202-8336. Chipped form of white chalcedony ([Fig. 3]).
202-8337. Chipped form.
202-8338. Chipped form made of red jasper ([Plate I, Fig. 2]).
202-8339 to 202-8344. Numbers 202-8339 to 202-8344 are chipped forms.
202-8345. Basal half of a chipped point.
202-8346. Half of a chipped form.
202-8347. Point of a chipped form.
202-8348. Part of a chipped form.
202-8349 to 202-8354. Numbers 202-8349 to 202-8354 are points of chipped forms.
202-8355. Triangular chipped point.
202-8356. Triangular chipped point.
202-8357. Chipped form.
202-8358. Chipped point.
202-8359. Chipped point made of brown horn stone ([Plate II, Fig. 11]).
202-8360. Triangular chipped point made of pale yellow chalcedony. The chalcedony is flint-like in texture ([Plate II, Fig. 14]).
202-8361. Chipped point made of yellow agate ([Plate II, Fig. 10]).
202-8362. Chipped point.
202-8363. Chipped point made of pale fulvous chalcedony ([Plate II, Fig. 8]).
202-8364. Chipped arrow, knife or spear point made of chalcedony ([Fig. 2]).
202-8365. Chipped arrow, spear or knife point.
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.
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.
Grave No. 39. Grave of a child near grave No. 38. This child's grave was of the same kind as grave No. 38.
202-8393. Pendant or bead made of sea shell ([Fig. 87]).
Grave No. 40. A rock-slide grave found 8 miles above Mr. Craig's house in a small slide at the foot of the bluff. Upright cedar slabs about 8 feet long were found along about 6 feet of the lower part of the grave. The skeleton of an adult lay flexed along the slabs with the head to the north.
99-4334. The skull.
Several similar graves, most of which have been rifled, were seen at this place.
Grave No. 41. Grave found about 5 miles south of Mr. Craig's house on the western bank of the Columbia. It was in the sand, covered with flat river boulders. No artifacts were found in the grave.
99-4335. Adult skeleton, bleached. Much of the skeleton was found exposed and parts were missing. The head was north.
Grave No. 42. Boulder-covered grave in sand was located at the edge of the river 12 miles up the Columbia from Mr. Craig's house. Numbers 99-4336 and 202-8394 to 202-8395 were found in this grave.
99-4336. An adult skeleton was found in this grave with the head north, face down, and flexed.
202-8394. Fragment of a large mortar made of stone ([Fig. 18]).
202-8395a, b, c. Three pestles found among the covering boulders of this grave.
Numbers 202-8396 to 202-8398 were presented by Mrs. J. B. Davidson of Ellensburg. The specimens were collected at the head of Priest Rapids.
202-8396. Pipe made of limestone decorated with the circle and dot design similar to that used in the Thompson River region ([Fig. 106] also negative 44505, 6-6).
202-8397. Double notched point chipped from black glassy basalt or trap ([Plate II, Fig. 6]).
202-8398. Point for a drill or perforator chipped from chalcedony ([Fig. 47]).
202-8399. River pebble partly pecked into the form of a pestle. Found on the surface 8 miles above the head of Priest Rapids ([Fig. 23]).
Various Localities.