. Bulletin. Ethnology. ANTHEOP. PAP. No. 20] NORTHERN NW. COAST ARCHEOLOGY DRUCKER 99 Wikeno center until about the contact period (accounts vary as to whether the date is to be put just before or just after). At that time a number of other Heihsuk groups, chiefly at the instance of the Oyalit division, made a very successful raid, killing a great num- ber of the inhabitants. The survivors fled to their kindred villages farther up the inlet. As I understand, the site was never actually occupied by the victors, who sought control of the rich fishing and sea-hunting grounds at the mouth of the i
. Bulletin. Ethnology. ANTHEOP. PAP. No. 20] NORTHERN NW. COAST ARCHEOLOGY DRUCKER 99 Wikeno center until about the contact period (accounts vary as to whether the date is to be put just before or just after). At that time a number of other Heihsuk groups, chiefly at the instance of the Oyalit division, made a very successful raid, killing a great num- ber of the inhabitants. The survivors fled to their kindred villages farther up the inlet. As I understand, the site was never actually occupied by the victors, who sought control of the rich fishing and sea-hunting grounds at the mouth of the inlet, and after a time the STE£P-TO BLUFF-. 5T£eP-T0 31 OFF, 25''30 FiQUEE 31.—Schooner Passage 1. D (Sketch, scale approx.) Wikeno repossessed the place, using it as a camp, however, not as a main winter village. It is from the incident of the raid that the site gets its local name: "Slaughter ; *^ Another version of the story adds that quantities of human remains are to be found lying about at the site, which are interpreted as corroboration of the massacre. We found none on the surface, however. Those that have been found may have washed out of the deposit, which contains both burials and fragmentary skeletal material. ^° "niahee" is Chinook jargon for "land,"' the coast for the middens. 'place," and is used at present on this part of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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