The Native Village Buried By A Mudslide For 500 Years — And The 55,000 Artifacts Found Preserved Beneath The Mud
The potlatch system, which moved wealth through a network of ceremonial obligations, was itself a form of institutionalized exchange that connected communities across wide geographic areas.
Understanding Ozette as a node in this regional network, rather than as an isolated village, is essential for interpreting the assemblage accurately.
The material culture documented at Ozette reflects not just the immediate resources of Cape Alava but the full range of connections that the community maintained with the broader Northwest Coast world.
What 500 Years Preserved and What It Lost
The mudslide at Ozette was, in a meaningful sense, simultaneously a catastrophe and a gift.
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