[9급 국가직 영어 2024년 17번]

Tribal oral history and archaeological evidence suggest that sometime between 1500 and 1700 a mudslide destroyed part of the village, covering several longhouses and sealing in their contents.

From the village of Ozette on the westernmost point of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, members of the Makah tribe hunted whales. ( ① ) They smoked their catch on racks and in smokehouses and traded with neighboring groups from around the Puget Sound and nearby Vancouver Island. ( ② ) Ozette was one of five main villages inhabited by the Makah, an Indigenous people who have been based in the region for millennia. ( ③ ) Thousands of artifacts that would not otherwise have survived, including baskets, clothing, sleeping mats, and whaling tools, were preserved under the mud. ( ④ ) In 1970, a storm caused coastal erosion that revealed the remains of these longhouses and artifacts.