excavation at fort ross
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Here, the excavation team is surveying an area of excavation at Fort Ross called Tomato Patch
 
The Excavation of a Kashaya Pomo Village Sitekashaya pomo villate
 ..................Picture of the large depression at Tomato Patch
.site being blessed by otis parrish
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.
 

................ethnographic sweat lodge
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.

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image from first excavation
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..