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The Wikiup Damsite No. I Knives55
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2017
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Mr. John F. Isackson, while working for the United States Bureau of Reclamation, September 13, 1934, discovered two Indian knives or side scrapers. The Bureau of Reclamation was engaged in making a survey of the quality of the soil at this point to hold water for a storage reservoir to impound the waters of the Deschutes River. The project was known as the Wikiup Damsite No. I, Deschutes Project. The site is located in Sec. 8, R. 9E. T. 22S., Willamette Meridian. It is shown on the Maiden Peak quadrangle of the U. S. Geological Survey of Oregon. Plate I, Figure 1 shows the location of the test pits, drill holes, and trenches. The logs of these are shown in Appendix B. Pit 4 is just to the east of the concrete monument on Control Line Damsite No. I at 14, 47.8.
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A report on the examination of the Test Pit No. 4 site, Wikiup Damsite, Deschutes Project, Oregon.
Editor's Note: Illustrations of the forest cover and of the roots mentioned on pp. 58–59 were submitted by the author, but were withheld from publication for financial reasons.
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57 See affidavit executed by Mr. Isackson (Appendix A). Mr. Isackson turned two knives over to the Oregon State Museum of Anthropology, but in conversation with the writer explained that he saw parts of a third. These parts he was unable to recover from the dirt thrown out of the test pit. The reference to three knives in the affidavit is thus explained. Our party in July, 1935, carefully sieved all the pit refuse but could find no fragment of knives or any other signs of artifacts. What Mr. Isackson saw as the third knife was without doubt some thin pieces of lava in the gravels he was throwing out of the pit; he mistook them for a third knife because of their similarity in thinness to the knives.
58 Trench I was cut down the steep north bank of the Deschutes to give a profile of the stratigraphic sequence.
59 Permission to excavate was given by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and the Supervisor of the Deschutes National Forest in which the site lay put the facilities of his office at our disposal. A grant from the Research Council of the University of Oregon and the Carnegie Institution subsidized the investigation. Maps, logs of test pits and other information was given us through the courtesy of Mr. R. F. Walter, Chief Engineer, U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, Colorado. Mr. C. L. Isted, Manager of the Shevlin-Hixon Company, gave us permission to camp on company property during the excavations. Judge Robert Sawyer, of Bend, assisted us in many ways.
60 “The lavas in the southern half of the quadrangle are largely covered by a thin post-glacial deposit of granular pumice, partly from Newberry Crater and partly from some more distant source, perhaps the Crater Lake region, to the southwest.” Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, publications listed in October, List 332, Reports, Newberry Crater, page 6.
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