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Although some of the sites were without European trade goods, 

 none of them appeared to be earlier than the late prehistoric period. 

 This makes all of the material culture suitable for comparison with 

 that of the McNary region. Table 6 compares the material culture 

 of the two regions. 



Table 6. — Comparison of artifacts of the Upper Columbia and McNary regions 



Artifacts 



Both regions 



McNary only 



Upper 



Columbia 



only 



Lozenge blades. 



Small side-notched points... 



End scrapers 



Spall flakes 



Tubular pipes 



Polished celts 



Grooved net weights 



Discoid choppers 



Sandstone shaft smoothers. . 



Digging-stick handles 



Bone points 



Bone needles 



Bone dice 



Bone beads 



Bone whistles 



Chipped fetish 



Polished-slate fetish 



Stone bowls 



Four-notched net weights 



Large comer-notched points. 



Barbed harpoon points 



Stone clubs 



Grooved mauls. 



Elbow pipes 



The close similarity between the two regions is clearly indicated, 

 but a few reservations should be made. Notched and grooved net 

 weights are present in the Upper Columbia region, but are not at 

 all numerous. The same is true of nearly all of the hammering and 

 chopping tools made from river-worn cobbles. In the Upper Co- 

 lumbia most chopping tools were chipped all over, and were made 

 of cryptocrystalline stone. As was the case in nearly every region 

 outside of the McNary, carving in stone and bone was important in 

 the Upper Columbia. In spite of the differences in numbers of cer- 

 tain artifacts, it is clear that both the McNary and Upper Columbia 

 regions shared many material culture traits. The traits included all 

 types of artifacts, utilitarian as well as decorative, and in most cases 

 were nearly identical in every small detail. 



BRITISH COLUMBIA 



Harlan Smith's archeological investigations in British Columbia 

 were part of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, and were carried 

 out in 1897 (Smith, 1899). Smith explored burial places and villages 

 along the Eraser and Thompson Rivers, and also examined private 

 collections. The bulk of the material culture illustrated in liis report 

 came from a burial ground near Lytton, British Columbia. The 



