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jumbled all in a heap. Individual cremation burials were never sec(jn- 

 dary, the burial being effected with knees flexed and skull facing 

 downward. Incineration was usually so complete as to prevent the 

 securing of any one complete skeleton. Several fragments of charred 

 skeletons including several skulls were recovered from the burn, pro- 

 viding sufificient material to reconstruct later at the Museum. Skulls 

 showed in every case a frontal -occipital deformation. Skulls from 

 graves other than at Wahluke do not always show this deformation, 



Fig. 197. — f>ame of Salisli type of sweat house on west bank of tlie 

 Columbia River six miles below Pateros. 



leading to the assumption that the practice was not general. The phy- 

 sical type is that of the tribes which occupied the upper plateau country 

 within historic times. Skulls found in graves accompanied by cere- 

 monial offerings having a distinctly Hudson Bay Company aspect, 

 such as trade beads of glass, and metal objects of copper, brass, and 

 iron, were in every instance of the same type as those occurring in pre- 

 historic graves. 



Many of the objects found in the burn among the charcoal and 

 charred bones were objects of daily use in the life of the Plateau 

 Indian of historic times. Most of the larger pieces as ])owls and 

 pestles were intentionally broken at burial. Objects found included 



