40  SMITHSONIAN    MISCELLANEOUS    COLLECTIONS  VOL.    96 
and  three  each  at  the  south  and  north  ends.  They  were  all  rather 
uniform  in  size,  averaging  from  5  to  8  inches  in  diameter.  Additional 
timbers  lay  in  the  intervening  space,  above  the  flat  stones  which  formed 
the  floor.  The  parallel  logs  lying  along  the  three  sides  were  interpreted 
as  remnants  of  fallen  walls,  which  had  been  formed  of  timbers  laid 
horizontally.  The  floor  stones  were  approximately  2  feet  beneath  the 
outside  level,  but  this  is  no  certain  indication  that  the  floor  was  origi- 
nally at  that  depth  as  there  had  undoubtedly  been  considerable  erosion 
of  the  surface  since  the  abandonment  of  the  site.  The  house  had  a 
width  of  10  feet  4  inches  (N.-S.)  ;  wall  timbers  were  not  present  on 
the  west  (front)  side,  but  the  floor  stones  and  the  entrance  passage 
showed  the  length  of  the  house  (E.-W.)  to  have  been  13  feet  4  inches. 
The  entrance  passage  faced  N.-NW.,  and  extended  14-^  feet  down 
the  slope.  It  was  2  feet  wide,  and  at  the  upper  end  where  it  joined 
the  house,  its  floor  was  i  foot  below  that  of  the  house.  Two  stones, 
set  on  edge,  marked  the  point  of  junction.  The  passage  was  traced 
by  means  of  the  stone  flooring  alone ;  nothing  remained  to  indicate 
the  manner  in  which  the  walls  and  roof  had  been  constructed. 
A  considerable  amount  of  cultural  material  was  found  in  and  around 
house  no.  2 ;  76  artifacts,  in  addition  to  quantities  of  broken  fragments, 
potsherds,  bones,  etc.,  were  obtained  from  the  house  site,  while  53 
more  were  found  beneath  the  floor  stones.  Included  among  the  sub- 
floor  material  were  two  baleen  vessels  with  wooden  bottoms  and  parts 
of  two  others,  found  in  a  recess  under  one  of  the  rear  floor  stones 
(pi,  53).  Forty  artifacts,  besides  the  usual  potsherds  and  fragments, 
were  found  in  rock  crevices  in  the  slide  adjoining. 
DECORATED   OBJECTS,   OLD   BERING   SEA,    FROM    THE    HILLSIDE   SITE 
The  decorated  objects  from  the  Hillside  site  proved  to  be  of  un- 
usual interest.  Fourteen  of  them  bore  the  typical  Old  Bering  Sea 
ornamentation ;  all  of  these  came  from  the  southern  part  of  the  site — 
house  no.  i,  the  midden  below  it,  and  the  adjoining  rocks.  Eleven 
of  these  pieces  are  illustrated  in  plate  13,  figures  1-3,  6,  and  plate  23, 
figures  I,  2,  4,  9,  10,  13,  14.  The  other  decorated  objects  from  the 
Hillside  site  were  either  rather  nondescript  or  bore  an  ornamentation 
which,  though  embodying  Old  Bering  Sea  elements,  was  on  the  whole 
of  a  simpler,  more  generalized  nature  than  that  previously  known. 
It  is  of  interest  to  note  that  five  of  the  six  decorated  objects  from 
house  no.  2,  four  of  which  came  from  beneath  the  floor  stones,  were 
in  this  simple,  unspecialized  style,  which  in  the  following  pages  will 
be  referred  to  as  "  Old  Bering  Sea  style  i  "  (pi.  12,  figs.  3,  11-14). 
