The Native Village Buried By A Mudslide For 500 Years — And The 55,000 Artifacts Found Preserved Beneath The Mud
Seals haul out on rocks.
The sea here is not background scenery.
It is the economic and cultural foundation of everything.
The Makah are a maritime people in the most complete sense of the phrase.
Their territory encompassed multiple village sites along this stretch of coast and on the Strait of Juan de Fuca, but Ozette, at Cape Alava, was one of the largest and most significant.
The village sat at the edge of a beach where canoes could be launched and where the products of the sea could be brought ashore.
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