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Table 4. — Comparison of artifacts of the Wahluke site and the McNary region 



Artifacts 



Both 

 regions 



McNary 

 only 



Wahluke 

 only 



Four-notched net weights- . 



Grooved net weights 



Discoid choppers 



Polished celts 



Side-notched points 



Lozenge blades 



End scrapers-- -_. 



Sandstone shaft smoothers. 



Bone whistles 



Bone flakers 



Bone beads 



Digging-stick handle 



Bone dice 



All kinds of shell 



Lap stones 



Stone howls 



Chipped fetish 



PoUshed-slate fetish 



Bone needles 



Elbow pipes.. 



Shouldered points 



Native copper 



Stone clubs 



reasonable to suspect that elbow pipes were not in direct association 

 with the Wahluke occupation. Elbow pipes are not a typical Plateau 

 trait until the Plains influences with horse and gun come in. Native 

 copper is not reported from any other archeological excavations in the 

 area. Minor differences can be seen in types of projectile points and 

 the artifacts mentioned above, but the bulk of the material culture 

 shows close affiliations with the McNary region. This is especially 

 true of the heavy stone tools used for net weights, hammers, and 

 choppers. 



THE YAKIMA REGION 



The Yakima River enters the Columbia from the west, about 10 

 miles north of the mouth of the Snake River. It rises in the Cascade 

 Mountains about 120 miles away, and flows through an open valley 

 most of the way. The fieldwork and report by Harlan I. Smith were 

 accomplished between 1908 and 1910 (Smith, 1910). His method 

 was a combination of surface survey, excavation, and examination of 

 private collections. The region that he investigated extended nearly 

 100 miles from Ellensburg, Wash., to the Columbia River. Part of 

 the Yakima region lies just north and w^est of the McNary region 

 and south of the Wahluke site. Since the Wahluke material culture 

 was so similar to that of the McNary region, it might be expected 

 that the Yakima materials would also be similar. The similarities 

 were found, and are shown in table 5. 



The Yakima region appears to differ slightly from the McNary 

 region in material culture. The differences are in almost the same 

 traits that distinguished the McNary from The Dalles. 



It is remarkable that Smith did not find bone whistles and sandstone 

 shaft smoothers in the Yakima Valley. These artifacts have been re- 



