At least 45 known sites along the Columbia River and its tributaries have been destroyed or damaged over the years by the construction of dams and rising reservoirs...James Kaiser USFS Archeologist 06-03-99.



OKANOGAN MEANS GATHERING PLACE IN THE NATIVE TONGUE



Thanks to the Washington State Historical Society, I've accquired prints of Harold Cundy's work. These watercolors are from the 1930's. The two sites are now under the Columbia River. Click on the banner above to view them. They are large images to show the full detail...
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P.O. Box 93
Tonasket, WA 98855
United States



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In the 1930's Harold Cundy came to the Okanogan. He found and recorded many pictograph sites here. Some of them are now under water. His records and drawings are all that is left of them. In 1945, Thomas Cain visited the Okanogan and recorded 17 of Cundy's sites in our County. Funds for the project were provided by the University of Washington's Anthropology Department and the Thomas Burke Washington State Museum. I've included his drawings from '45 in most of these images.




Richard McClure came to the Okanogan in 1977 and again in 1978. He did a very good job of finding 32 sites. He is now an Archeologist with the USFS in Oregon.




Using Cain and McClure's work I have returned to most of their sites. Along the way, I've found quite a few never recorded pictographs. This is quite exciting for me. Several of them are very interesting sites recorded only by Cundy in the 30's...















There was a very nice article about Mr. Layman's book in the Spokesman on 10-07-02. It has over 120 photographs of the Columbia before the dams were constucted. This image of Kettle Falls is just incredible. William should be praised for his dilligent efforts! Once the book is available from Amazon you can click on the image to order it...





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