. Bulletin. Ethnology. ANTHEOP. PAP. No. 20] NORTHERN NW. COAST ARCHEOLOGY—DRUCKER 93 has a good landing, from which a trail leads to the village. Remains of several native houses are to be seen on the site, as well as a modern frame house. The site is used by people from Bella Bella for grow- ing potatoes, and a good part of the surface has been cultivated at one time or another. On the little knoll at the north end of the promontory are several modern graves with marble headstones, in a fenced plot. Next to them are a pair of carved grave posts (ca. 15 feet apart) between which a gravehouse
. Bulletin. Ethnology. ANTHEOP. PAP. No. 20] NORTHERN NW. COAST ARCHEOLOGY—DRUCKER 93 has a good landing, from which a trail leads to the village. Remains of several native houses are to be seen on the site, as well as a modern frame house. The site is used by people from Bella Bella for grow- ing potatoes, and a good part of the surface has been cultivated at one time or another. On the little knoll at the north end of the promontory are several modern graves with marble headstones, in a fenced plot. Next to them are a pair of carved grave posts (ca. 15 feet apart) between which a gravehouse once stood. (See pi. 8, g.) A landslip, caused by the fall of a large tree over the bluff, has car- ried away the house. A creek running into the cove to the north. Figure 28,—Plan, Kilkitei Village. provides water, for a well-defined trail leads from the site to the stream. Three canoe runways were seen on the beach, one directly in front of the site, two at the landing in the cove to the north. Unlike those previously seen, these have been kept in repair, poles about 8 feet long being laid across, 2 to 5 feet apart and weighted down with the rocks of the row of stones on either side. The arrange- ment is a most effective one, as we learned by sliding our skiff up the one in the cove. The midden is long, straggling along the front of the promontory (see fig. 28). Its dimensions are: Length, 575 feet (along the top) ; average width, 50 feet. Formerly, it must have been both longer and wider, for the north end appears to have been considerably eroded, and the front has suffered from wave cutting. Height 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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