The Native Village Buried By A Mudslide For 500 Years — And The 55,000 Artifacts Found Preserved Beneath The Mud
The tribe’s ownership of the resulting collection was never in question.
This matters not merely as an ethical footnote but as a substantive point about how the project functioned.
The community knowledge that Makah workers brought to the excavation was part of the interpretive resource that made the findings meaningful.
When objects were recovered, there were people present who understood what certain forms were for, who recognized functions and contexts that pure archaeological interpretation might have taken longer to establish.
What the Mud Did and Did Not Do
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