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the extensive material collected by Dr. F. S. Hall and others for the 

 State Museum, at Seattle. Enthusiastic interest in the project was 

 shown by members of the Columbia River Archeological Society and 

 others who have done pioneer work in locating" many ancient villages 

 and burial sites and in gathering and classifying many different types 







Fig. 185. — View along the Columbia River at Vantage Ferry, Grant 

 County, Washington. Many pictographs and petroglyphs appear on the 

 western escarpment of colmnnar basalt near the water's edge. The low- 

 lying bench land to the left was the site of a large pit house village. 



of archeological material. Information as to location of sites and 

 distribution of type specimens was in every instance cheerfully given. 

 The next step in the survey was the plotting of an archeological map 

 of the Columbia and tributary valleys showing known village sites 

 and cemeteries. A check was made on data already collected, amplified 

 in several instances by a visit to the reported location of an isolated 

 pit house ruin, village site, or cremation burial. 



