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relationship to the house, as is shown in the discussion of that house. 

 It obviously was constructed in the depression after the house had 

 been abandoned. 



To understand the use of an earth oven it would be best to quote 

 the experience of Collier and his associates in the Grand Coulee 

 Reservoir area: 



We observed the process of cooking camas in an earth oven at the house of 

 Rosie Seymour, 84 year old Okanogan-Lakes woman living at Kelly Hill in the 

 hills north of Kettle Falls. A pit four feet square and ten inches deep was dug. 

 The pit was covered with timbers and rocks were piled on top of the timbers. 



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