. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. KJOKKEN-MODDINGS ON NORTHWEST COAST OF AMERICA. 361 southward there are other shell-heaps on a small saud-hill. (This is the locality where the fine obsidian knives were found, which are in a private collection at this place.) Fig. CMtle-sMn, {Big Bod; now CrooTc's Point, Figure R.)—About three miles from the month of Pistol Eiver and six miles from the prominent Cape Sebastian southerly, there is a flat point known as Crook's Point. So
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. KJOKKEN-MODDINGS ON NORTHWEST COAST OF AMERICA. 361 southward there are other shell-heaps on a small saud-hill. (This is the locality where the fine obsidian knives were found, which are in a private collection at this place.) Fig. CMtle-sMn, {Big Bod; now CrooTc's Point, Figure R.)—About three miles from the month of Pistol Eiver and six miles from the prominent Cape Sebastian southerly, there is a flat point known as Crook's Point. Southwest of this is a rock, separated from a group, which is made prominent by forming a very picturesque arch. After this rock the deserted homestead of the Indians was named. If from this point we follow the bluff on the left side, (t. e., northward,) we find flint splinters and shell and bone remains in large quantities up to a place where a^^mall creek crosses the path; thence the debris is found in single heaps along the sands toward Pistol Eiver. In a place where the latter makes a strong eddy, there has been an important ranclieria, and there I found the finest arrow-heads. A little farther up the river, between the sand-hills, there are yet found remains of the "fort" of 1856, of the time of the Eogue Eiver war. Between Crook's Point and this place it was evident that battles had been fought; for along this distance the finest assortment of arrow and si)ear heads was found. If we now cross the river and mount the plateau of the right bank, we find, immediately in the angle formed by the bend of the river, where in former times was a settlement, excavations, which stretch for 100 yards beyond Dolan's house, and of which the remains then suddenly cease, appearing again in small numbers at a j^lace near the cape. South from Crook's Point lies Khust-e-nete, a deposit of great extent, but I had not even time to give it the slightest examination. Eight miles. Pleas
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