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STONE AND SLATE IMPLEMENTS. 



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number of old house-sites, which belonged to a race called Omldlon} 

 who formerly inhabited these regions, and some centuries ago were 

 driven by the Chukches, according to tradition, to some remote 

 islands in the Polar Sea. At these old house-sites Dr. Almquist 

 and Lieutenant Nordquist set on foot excavations in order to 

 collect contributions to the ethnography of this traditional race. 

 The houses appear to have been built, at least partly, of the 

 bones of the whale, and half sunk in the earth. The refuse 



IMPLEMENTS FOUND IN THE RUINS OF AH ONKILON HOUSE. 



1. stone cliisel with bone handle, one-half the natural size. 2, 4. Knives of slate, one-third. 



3, 7. Sjiear-heads of slate, oue-tkird. 5. Spear-head of bone, one-third. 



6. Bone spoon, one-third. 



heaps in the neighbourhood contained bones of several species 

 of the whale, amongr them the white whale, and of the seal, 

 walrus, reindeer, bear, dog, fox, and various kinds of birds. 

 Besides these remains of the produce of the chase, there were 

 found implements of stone and bone, among which were stone 



^ Anhali signifies in Cliukeh dwellers on the cOcast, and is now used to 

 denote the Chukches living on the coast. A similar word, Onkilon, was 

 formerly used as the name of the Eskimo tribe that lived on the coast 

 of the Polar Sea when the Chukch migration reached that point. 



