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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



the remains of semisubterranean dwellings and their accumulations 

 (kitchen refuse) range from approximately 4 to over 15 feet in 

 depth, reaching collectively about 500,000 cubic feet of ashes, shell 

 detritus, rubble, and earth, throughout all of which are found with 

 more or less frequency specimens of cultural nature, with animal and 

 human bones. According to all indications this site is one of the oldest 

 yet discovered in the far north. The lack of all traces of white man, 

 wood reduced to streaks of formless brown rot, and the considerable 

 filling in of the dwelling depressions with subsequent burials in these 

 by later natives, all point to the conclusion that the site is prehistoric, 



Fig. 94. — Jones Point, Uyak Bay, Kodiak Island. Excavations by the 

 writer on the east side of the point. Mrs. Jones standing to the left of the 

 excavation. 



pre-Russian, and that its occupation extended for a relatively long 

 time backward. The deposits, further, are not homogeneous and 

 may be the result of repeated occupation. 



As on the Nushagak and on Bristol Bay, I was confronted here 

 with an enormous and highly promising task, and at the same time 

 with a total lack of labor. The very few whites and natives that live 

 on the bay were all fishing, and the cannery, with the unexpectedly 

 large run of fish this year, was itself short of labor. As a great favor, 

 nevertheless, they gave me one of the dock hands to help for two 

 weeks with the shoveling. With him, though he observed strictly 

 union rules and hours, and the help each day of from one to four 

 friends, it was possible to make four satisfactory " incisions " into the 



