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Table 5. — Comparison of artifacts in the McNary and Yakima regions 



Artifacts 



Both regions 



McNary only 



Yalfima only 



Four-notched net weights-. 



Grooved net weights -. 



Discoid choppers 



Stone bowls 



Polished celts 



Side-notched points 



Lozenge blades 



End scrapers 



Bone beads 



Digging-stick handle 



Bone dice 



Bone needles 



All kinds of shell 



Chipped fetish 



Polished-slate fetish 



Sandstone shaft smoothers. 



Bone whistles 



Stone clubs 



Elbow pipes 



Sculptured pipes 



Elaborately carved bone.-. 

 Elaborately carved pestles. 



covered botli north and south of the Yakima region, and Smith was 

 unable to explain their absence. It is possible that the elaborate carv- 

 ing in stone and bone belonged to a late period, perhaps as late as 1875, 

 to 1900. Smith opened several graves which were quite recent at the 

 time. INIost of the complex sculpture was in the hands of private col- 

 lectors, and thus of unknown provenience. With these exceptions, 

 however, the Yakima material culture is nearly identical to that of the 

 McNary region. 



THE CHIEF JOSEPH RESERVOIR 



About 100 air miles north of Wahluke, considerably farther via the 

 Columbia Eiver, is the Chief Joseph Keservoir. It is downstream 

 from the Grand Coulee Dam. During the summer of 1950 (Osborne, 

 Crabtree, and Bryan, 1952), River Basin Surveys parties excavated 

 several sites along the river. Although some information on architec- 

 ture was recovered, artifacts were few in number. All the sites ap- 

 peared to be late, and even the graves were poorly furnished. Too 

 few artifacts were found to permit a systematic comparison with those 

 of the McNary region, but the ones that were found did not differ 

 significantly. 



THE UPPER COLUMBIA REGION 



Archeological reconnaissance in the Grande Coulee Reservoir be- 

 gan in 1939, after the dam was under construction, and because of the 

 rising water, was not carried to completion. The salvage archeology 

 of Collier, Hudson, and Ford (1942) recovered representative collec- 

 tions of artifacts but little information on prehistoric architecture. 

 Their region included both banks of the Columbia River from the 

 Grand Coulee Dam almost to the Canadian border, and it is referred 

 to as the Upper Columbia region. 



