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the United States Coast Guard Service had to he called on for the 

 disposal of the bodies. 



From Egigik I returned for the third time to the important Pawik 

 site on the Naknek River and this time, thanks to the kind aid and 

 hospitality of P. A. Berglund, Superintendent of the nearhy North- 

 western Cannery, and hecause of the advanced season, it was possible 

 to unearth a series of old skeletons, as well as a fair collection of 

 archeological remains. A particularly interesting find among the latter 

 was that of parts of four slate arrow or dart points of the " Folsom 

 type," one of which lay in the deposits near a blue Russian bead. 

 Another point of the same type had been obtained previously on the 

 Nushagak River, and the same bilateral fluting is common ,in the 

 points of the fossil ivory culture of the Bering Strait region. 



The next prolonged stop was on the Kvichak River, 4 miles from 

 its mouth in the Iliamna Lake. Here on the left bank of the river 

 exists a large old site, abandoned " long ago," which notwithstanding 

 much frost and ice in the ground could be explored with some ade- 

 quacy, thanks to the aid of the fine lot of boys from the nearby weir- 

 camp of the Bureau of Fisheries, headed by Fred Lucas, and which 

 yielded very valuable material. 



From the Kvichak two trips were made to the great Iliamna Lake, 

 which although not rich in anthropological results yielded some ob- 

 servations on a remnant of living "Aleut " natives at the Newhalen 

 River, and four fine " Kenai " skeletons from Knud's Bav. 



The route then led, in company with Mr. Hart, across the 12-mile 

 portage to Iliamna Bay on Cook's Inlet, and, with the invaluable aid 

 of one of his boats, to Larsen Bay on Kodiak Island. 



The work in Uyak and Larsen bays, Kodiak Island, proved from 

 the start one of absorbing interest. It is another virgin field, and 

 proved to be one of unexpected richness. With the help of excellent 

 friends, Mr. Hart, Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Doctor Rich, Mr. Barnaby, 

 and others, I was soon able to locate a series of sites, several of which 

 were of considerable extent, and the excavations in one of these proved 

 so fruitful from the first day that they were carried on for 15 days 

 without interruption. Xot a day elapsed without the discovery of some 

 unique specimen ; some of the objects showed remarkable art, hitherto 

 wholly unknown from these regions. Much skeletal material was also 

 recovered. 



The site in which the excavations were carried on is on, an elevated 

 rocky point projecting into Uyak Bay. It extends both back and 

 laterally and covers approximately about two acres. Over this 

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