Here, the excavation team is surveying an area of excavation at Fort Ross called Tomato Patch

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The excavation began only after the site of Tomato Patch had been blessed by Otis Parrish, son of Essie Parrish, the last Kashaya Pomo shaman. Mr. Parrish is also a graduate student of Anthropology at Berkeley.

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This is an ethnographic depiction of a sweat lodge. This picture is used in comparison with the large depression at Tomato Patch. This picture was taken in 1918 by Barret, who was the 1st Anthropology Ph.D. from Berkeley. and printed a salvage ethnography of the Kashaya Pomo.

Profile of the large depression

The first excavation units to slice into the center of the large depression offered evidence of a relatively large structure that had burned down collapsing into itself and settling relatively undisturbed..