Washington
California Indian Baskets in the Maryhill Museum (Photo Diary)
The California culture area has the widest variety of native languages, ecological settings, and house types of any North American culture area. The shaded area […]
Washington
Northwest Coast Baskets in the Maryhill Museum (Photo Diary)
The Northwest Coast culture area stretches along the Pacific coast between the Cascade Mountains and the ocean. It extends north of California to Alaska. This […]
Some Inuit Carvings (Photo Diary)
A special exhibit at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane, Washington, featured The Inuit Art of Povungnituk. A portion of this exhibit […]
Columbia River Pictographs (Photo Diary)
For more than 10,000 years Indian people have lived adjacent to the Columbia River. In the Columbia Gorge area, hundreds, if not thousands, of archaeological […]
Public Lands: Indian Languages Along the Trail (Photo Diary)
The Discovery Historic Loop Trail in Vancouver, Washington, runs from historic Fort Vancouver National Historic Site across the Vancouver Land Bridge designed by architect Johnpaul […]
Some Plateau Indian Artifacts (Photo Diary)
The Franklin County Historical Society and Museum in Pasco, Washington, has a display relating to the Indians in the Franklin County area. This map shows […]
A Collection of Indian “Arrowheads” (Photo Diary)
Throughout the United States, private collectors for the past couple of centuries have been collecting “arrowheads” (many of these stone artifacts are not in fact […]
Plateau Flat Bags in the Maryhill Museum (Photo Diary)
The Maryhill Museum located near Goldendale, Washington, has a display of Plateau flat bags. The Plateau Culture Area is the area between the Cascade Mountains […]
Klickitat Baskets
Long before the European invasion of North America, a number of autonomous, independent, and linguistically related peoples lived in contiguous territories in what would become […]
Ancient America: The Lower Columbia River Area
In 1805, the American Corps of Discovery under the leadership of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark made its way down the lower Columbia River. This […]