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was followed at a smaller site a few hundred yards down the heach. 

 This village had been abandoned for at least 200 years and it may have 

 been established somewhat earlier than the other, although this is not 

 certain. 



Both middens were rich in material. Large numbers of bird and 

 manimal_bones and several thousand artifacts lost or discarded by the 

 Eskimos, all identified as to location and depth, were collected. In- 

 cluded were over 70 decorated specimens of ivory, most of which 

 belonged to the style of prehistoric Eskimo art that I had found the 



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Fig. 131.— Camp at Cape Kialegak, St. Lawrence Island. Cleaning and 

 drying- bones from the old village. 



year before to be characteristic of Punuk Island and the greater part 

 of St. Lawrence.^ However, there were also found nine specimens 

 which bore the incised curvilinear ornamentation that had been pre- 

 viously recognized as having preceded the Punuk type.' This older 

 style of art, which was discovered in 1926 by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka and 

 Mr. Diamond Jenness, is marked by a profuse but extremely graceful 

 arrangement of flowing lines, circles, and ellipses, the latter having 

 been made free hand in contrast to those of the Punuk period which 

 were made with a compass or drill of metal. There is no evidence that 



^ Explorations and Field-Work of the Smithsonian Institntion in 1928. Smith- 

 sonian Institution, 1929. 



^Prehistoric art of the Alaskan Eskimo. Smithsonian Misc. Coll., Vol. 81, 

 No. 14, 1929. 



