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below the confluence of Crab Creek, about 40 miles up the river from 

 Wahluke. The old Indian term Wahluke is said to mean " where one 

 can see and watch." If this is the correct meaning of the word, it 

 would explain the term Sentinel Mountains, a name still applied to 

 the same range. The flat east bank of the river opposite Wahluke 



Fig. 189. — One of the many caves in the lava and vesiculate hasalt bluffs of 

 the Columbia River. Such caves were used as temporary habitations by hunt- 

 ing and fishing parties, also by bats. This cave, as may be seen, is half filled 

 with debris composed of charred bat guano, camp refuse, such as fabrics, mats, 

 and cooking stones, together with weapon parts and tools. 



was known to the Indians as Yanuke " the place where animals come 

 to the water and drink." 



Burials at Wahluke were mostly primary and ceremonial cremation 

 in type. Graves were placed in irregular rows along the river beach 

 up-stream from the village proper. But one site along the river is 

 known where a village had been built on top of a site and cemetei"y 



