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Ozette: Excavating a Makah Whaling Village

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Makah families left the coastal village of Ozette within the 1920s to comply with the government’s requirement that they send their children to college, and by doing so they ended nearly two thousand years of occupation at this strategic whale- and seal-hunting website on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. Archaeologist Richard Daugherty took note of the website in a survey of the coast in 1947 and later returned on the request of the Makah tribal chairman when storm waves started exposing both architecture and artifacts. Full-scale excavations from 1966 to 1981 revealed houses and their contents―including ordinarily perishable wood and basketry objects that had been buried in a mudflow well before the arrival of Europeans within the region. Led by Daugherty, with a team of graduate and undergraduate students and Makah tribal members, the work culminated within the creation of the Makah Museum in Neah Bay, where more than 55,000 Ozette artifacts are curated and displayed.

Ozette: Excavating a Makah Whaling Village is a comprehensive and highly readable account of this world-famous archaeological website and the hydraulic excavation of the mudslide that both demolished the homes and safe the objects inside from decay. Ruth Kirk used to be present, documenting the archaeological work from its beginning, and her firsthand knowledge of the people and efforts involved enrich her compelling story of discovery, fieldwork, and deepen our working out of Makah cultural heritage.

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