[OR_Archaeology] Re-visioning The Place Portland Event 10/17 features Sunken Village site and Dales Croes!

[Susan White]

Revisioning This Place - Portland
Dale Croes, Charles Funk, Pat Courtney Gold, Sam Robinson
Oct 17 - 10:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Native American Student and Community Center, PSU
710 SW Jackson Street
Portland, Oregon
Phone: 360-258-3289

This one-day event asks participants to imagine the Northwest before statehood when Chinookan communities dominated the landscape, by examining a single but significant material object, a basket. In 2006, archaeologist Dale Croes recovered an intact cedar checker-weave basket from the "Sunken Village" Chinookan archaeological site (1250-1750 AD) on Sauvie Island. Dr. Croes calls the artifact, "the Lucy of baskets," indicating how significant this basket is to understanding Chinookan culture in Oregon.

Using Chinookan basketry as a focus, CCRH presents a day of short, family-friendly presentations by Native and non-Native historians, archaeologists, and basket weavers. The program will include hands-on activities such as processing acorns and traditional weaving.

This cross warp basket is made with cattail and tule. Techniques used by the Wasco-Chinook remain the same as those used 700 or more years ago. Images courtesy of Pat Courtney Gold. 

for more information visit the Center for Columbia River History at 

http://www.ccrh.org/calendar.php