ART. II. - RESEARCHES IN THE KJOKKENMODDINGS AND 

 GRAVES OF A FORMER FOPULATION OF THE COAST OF 

 OREGON.* 



By Paul Schumacher. 



Plates 2-S. 



With two hired men and a camp outfit, I left San Francisco toward the 

 end of September, 1875, on board of the United States revenue-cutter 

 Richard Rush, Captain Baker, having received permission to take pas- 

 sage on one of her northern cruises. We made landing at Port Orford, 

 in Oregon, September 27, and the following day pitched our first camp 

 near the fresh-water lagoon, a little to the north of the point. 



From here I dispatched one of the men 45 miles down the coast to 

 Pistol River to bring pack-animals, for which arrangement had already 

 been made ; I also engaged, in addition to the help already employed, 

 two Oregonians in my party, whom I knew to be good packers and able 

 hands for an expedition full of hardships, exposure to the elements, and 

 hard labor, all of which I justly anticipated. 



Before the arrival of men and animals, I, with one man left, inves- 

 tigated the neighborhood of the lagoou, so advantageously adapted 

 for the location of aboriginal settlements. Near the mouth of the 

 outlet of the lagoon, we discovered the site of a small settlement 

 (Map 1) [Plate 2], the location of the huts being still indicated by sev- 

 eral circular depressions, with an embankment around it of 1 or 2 feet 

 above the average level of the somewhat elevated position, which, to- 

 ward the sea, abruptly terminates in a bluff of nearly 50 feet. Across 

 the river, dunes border the ocean for about a mile to the northward. 

 Looking in that direction, we gain a good view, although a part of the 

 lake, or lagoon, is hidden by the heavy timber on the right, while to the 

 southward the steep ascent of the high rocky point immediately ob- 

 structs any view in that direction ; leaving a grassy, steep canon to the 

 eastward, with a small running stream of good water, which passes at 

 the foot of the settlement. About half-way from this station to the lake, 

 and on the county trail, we find another small deserted rancheria. The 



[* This and the succeeding article by the same author are the outcome of explorations 

 conducted under the joint auspices of the Smithsonian Institution and the Indian 

 Bureau, for the purpose of making a representation of the archaiologj' of the Califor- 

 nia coast at the United States Centennial Exposition. The articles are furnished by 

 the Smithsonian Institution for publication by the Survey. The illustrations are from 

 maps, sketches and plans furnished by the author. — Ed.] 



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