unclemac
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- Oct 12, 2011
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- Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
Before I ever realized that the basin was a bottle producing site the first place I ever found that got me interested in bottles was also at this beach. Most of the Native Americans from this stretch of coast never relocated to reservations. The Chinook tribe (whom I am sure you all have heard of) isn’t even a U.S. government recognized tribe. Most of these peoples stayed in the area where they have always lived. Most of the early settlement descendants have, over time, married into this tribe and many of the village sites became small towns. The actual beach sites that these villages occupied are long gone but if you know sorta where to look and WHAT to look for, the evidence screams out at you “X marks the spot”.
When my middle son (who I nicknamed “good luck boy”) was about five or so we were poking around a beach village site that I was aware of when we found… the dump. I was into collecting broken pottery in those days which I made mosaic furniture out of and I needed more material. Well he spotted this beautiful green beast of a thing that turned out to be an old copper canning cauldron but what was next to it really got my attention.
We started to pull out bottle after bottle, broken ceramics by the bucket full, canning jars, glass canning inserts, even an old metal cobbler’s last. He really sealed his reputation that day as “good luck boy”. And wherever I took him after that we did well …even in rain storms in the pitch black of night…
The bottles include "Moone's Emerald Oil"..."Dr. King's New Discovery"...unknown with a cork still in it and who-knows what inside ..."Davis Pain Killer"..."Green Prescription 1000"..."Lash's Bitters"...A lot of my bottles seem to to morphine based cough medicines, that and it being turn of the century Indian village....makes me think TB.
When my middle son (who I nicknamed “good luck boy”) was about five or so we were poking around a beach village site that I was aware of when we found… the dump. I was into collecting broken pottery in those days which I made mosaic furniture out of and I needed more material. Well he spotted this beautiful green beast of a thing that turned out to be an old copper canning cauldron but what was next to it really got my attention.
We started to pull out bottle after bottle, broken ceramics by the bucket full, canning jars, glass canning inserts, even an old metal cobbler’s last. He really sealed his reputation that day as “good luck boy”. And wherever I took him after that we did well …even in rain storms in the pitch black of night…
The bottles include "Moone's Emerald Oil"..."Dr. King's New Discovery"...unknown with a cork still in it and who-knows what inside ..."Davis Pain Killer"..."Green Prescription 1000"..."Lash's Bitters"...A lot of my bottles seem to to morphine based cough medicines, that and it being turn of the century Indian village....makes me think TB.
