DUNGENESS — Medical examiners have confirmed that a jawbone found at Dungeness Bay is human and most likely came from an American Indian who died long ago.
“The mandible is very, very old,” Clallam County Sheriff’s Detective Sgt. Nick Turner said Wednesday.
A preliminary examiner’s report released Tuesday did not indicate an exact age of the bone, though Turner estimated it is at least 100 years old.
The Sheriff’s Department will probably turn the bone over to the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe for reburial, Turner said.
The relic was discovered by a Sequim man June 25 on Sequim-Dungeness Way near the 3 Crabs Restaurant as he returned to his vehicle from a crabbing trip.
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