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Four Burials from the Coeur d'Alene Region, Idaho

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Tom O. Miller Jr.*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Extract

This is a report of four burials recovered from the Coeur d'Alene area, Kootenai County, north Idaho, in minor salvage operations.

lOKtl (b-1). During the fall of 1949 construction workers on the North Idaho Junior College campus in Coeur d'Alene unearthed one burial. Workmen turned over the skull and longbones and a large iron blade into a box, to the Junior College. There was some green patination on the back of the skull, as if it had been in contact with copper. The blade or point measured 13.6 in. by 2.9 in., and was slightly under 0.3 in. in thickness. It is reported to be a type common in the trade material in the Plateau. Position and orientation are not known.

Roselake Burial. In the spring of 1950 a retired resident of Roselake, Idaho, discovered a skull and some longbones weathered or scraped out of the bank of thfe Coeur d'Alene River, at Roselake.

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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1954

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