Sometimes things go missing. Every once in a while they show up again.
Many cultures have a tale of a lost city. The Makah people who live at the very tip of the Olympic Peninsula are no different. But a storm in 1970 revealed that the village of Ozette really had existed, and was buried in a landslide around 1560. As excavation work continued, over 50,000 artifacts were collected. The collection, much of it still housed in a museum in Neah Bay on the Makah Reservation, documents about 2000 years of pre-European life in the Pacific Northwest. Even wood, grass, and cloth are preserved, making the lost-and-found village an important site for understanding the traditions of the local tribes.