6o  SMITHSONIAN    MISCELLANEOUS    COLLECTIONS  VOL.    96 
Cut  4. — Adjoins  cut  i  on  the  east^;  5  feet  8  inches  deep;  taken 
down  in  11  levels.  Specimens  numbered  195.  Very  similar  to  cut 
I  as  to  gravel  content,  etc.  Plate  6,  figure  i,  shows  the  beginning  of 
work  on  cut  4,  with  cut  i  in  the  foreground ;  plate  6,  figure  2,  is  a 
view  of  the  same  at  a  later  stage  of  excavation.  A  piece  of  textile 
found  at  depth  of  26  inches.  The  decorated  needle  case  shown  in 
plate  17,  figure  9,  came  from  a  depth  of  55  inches.  Harpoon  heads 
were  were  all  Punuk  types;  four  of  these  are  illustrated  (pi.  24, 
fig.  8;  pi.  28,  figs.  12,  14,  15). 
Cut  6. — Thirty-five  feet  south  of  cut  3  ;  4  feet  7  inches  deep ;  taken 
down  in  eight  levels.  Specimens  numbered  98.  At  a  depth  of  20 
inches  was  found  a  mass  of  organic  material,  evidently  disintegrated 
animal  flesh,  flaky,  yellowish,  blubber-soaked,  together  with  fallen 
pieces  of  wood  which  had  probably  formed  part  of  a  cache.  More 
of  the  cache — fallen  whale  ribs,  scapulae,  and  stones — were  found 
below  this  to  a  depth  of  50  inches.  There  was  relatively  little  gravel 
in  cut  6,  but  more  baleen  and  other  organic  material  which  emitted 
a  sour,  pungent  odor.  The  ivory  winged  object  with  elaborate  Old 
Bering  Sea  decoration  (pi.  20,  fig.  4)  was  found  at  a  depth  of  36 
inches.  The  bone  harpoon  head  (pi.  28,  fig.  6)  comes  from  a  depth 
of  20  inches;  another  (pi.  26,  fig.  6)  from  a  depth  of  26  inches;  a 
fragment,  from  the  latter  depth,  bears  Old  Bering  Sea  ornamentation. 
On  the  whole,  the  midden  deposit  at  this  particular  spot  appears  to 
be  older  than  that  to  the  northward.  At  a  depth  of  50  inches  was 
found  the  skull  of  a  bearded  seal,  with  a  baleen  thong  through  the 
foramen  in  the  palate ;  it  had  evidently  been  preserved  prior  to  being 
disposed  of  in  some  special  manner. 
Cut  ij. — Seventy-five  feet  W.-SW.  of  cut  i ;  40  feet  from  edge 
of  midden;  three  levels,  to  a  depth  of  26  inches,  taken  down  in  1930; 
three  additional  levels,  to  depth  of  34  inches,  in  193 1;  bottom  not 
reached.  Specimens  numbered  153.  The  part  of  the  midden  where 
this  cut  and  cut  20  were  made  seems  to  have  been  the  latest  section 
of  Miyowagh.  One  of  the  harpoon  heads,  from  a  depth  of  20  inches, 
is  shown  in  plate  28,  figure  3 ;  the  others  were  mostly  of  open  socket 
type  III  (a)  x.  No  trace  of  Old  Bering  Sea  art  or  artifacts,  or  even 
of  early  Punuk. 
Cut  20. — Between  cut  i  and  house  no.  5  Excavated  by  M.  B. 
Chambers  in  1931.  Taken  down  in  five  levels  to  a  depth  of  3  feet  3 
inches,  bottom  not  reached.  Artifacts  numbered  115.  Material  prac- 
tically identical  to  that  from  cut  17.  Fifteen  harpoon  heads  and  two 
other  objects  bearing  Punuk  decoration,  one  weathered  fragment  of 
harpoon  head  with  Old  Bering  Sea  decoration.   Four  of  the  harpoon 
