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13)  adjoining  cut  8.  Three  decorated  objects,  all  Old  Bering  Sea, 
were  found  in  cut  8:  the  winged  object  (pi.  20,  fig.  3)  from  a  depth 
of  23  inches ;  fragmentary  harpoon  head,  32  inches  ;  another  harpoon 
head  (pi.  26,  fig.  19),  40  inches. 
Cuts  10,  II,  12,  /J. — Cuts  10  and  11  were  two  small  cuts,  each 
6  by  4  feet,  adjoining  cut  8  on  the  SVV.  Cut  10,  4^-  feet  deep,  was 
taken  down  in  seven  levels;  cut  11,  5  feet  deep,  in  six  levels.  Cut 
12,  6  by  6  feet,  adjoining  cut  8  on  the  north,  was  taken  to  a  depth 
of  only  27  inches;  bottom  not  reached.  Cut  13,  adjoining  cut  8  on 
the  east,  was  triangular  in  shape,  12  by  10  by  6  feet;  5  feet  deep, 
taken  down  in  five  levels.  Specimens  to  the  number  of  162  were 
found  in  these  four  cuts.  The  material  was  similar  to  that  from  cut 
8;  the  ivory  was  dark  and  rather  poorly  preserved  and  there  was  a 
considerable  quantity  of  baleen.  Unfortunately,  we  were  not  able 
to  get  any  clear  idea  as  to  the  nature  of  the  structure  or  structures 
revealed  in  these  cuts.  The  pieces  of  whale  bones  and  timbers  found 
in  the  eastern  part  of  cut  8  were  shown  to  have  been  part  of  a  cache, 
for  they  continued  into  cut  13,  where  they  were  found  to  enclose  two 
layers  of  split  walrus  hides.  Below  this  were  found  other  timbers 
and  whale  bones,  evidently  part  of  a  house,  for  they  rested  on  the 
remnants  of  a  stone  floor  found  at  a  depth  of  54  inches.  On  the 
floor  were  found  a  fragment  of  a  harpoon  head  and  a  gut  scraper 
(pi.  17,  fig.  2),  both  with  Old  Bering  Sea  decoration,  and  a  wooden 
object  with  one  end  carved  to  represent  a  human  head  (pi.  47,  fig. 
15).  Just  outside  the  stone  floor  was  an  upright  timber  8  inches  in 
diameter,  broken  off  at  the  height  of  2^  feet.  This  seems  to  have  been 
a  corner  post,  for  extending  at  right  angles  from  it  were  remnants 
of  two  small  horizontal  timbers.  Three  other  broken  uprights  were 
found  6  and  9  feet  south  of  the  first  one,  and  undoubtedly  the  other 
timbers  and  pieces  of  whale  jaws  lying  on  and  above  the  stone  flooring 
had  been  part  of  the  walls  or  roof  of  the  house,  but  it  had  been  so 
thoroughly  demolished  that  no  structural  details  could  be  made  out. 
Six  inches  below  the  stone  flooring  was  what  appeared  to  have  been 
an  earlier  floor  of  the  same  kind.  On  this  lower  floor  was  found  a 
small  harpoon  head  with  Old  Bering  Sea  decoration  (pi.  26,  fig.  13). 
Cut  p. — Thirty  feet  south  of  cut  8,  on  the  low-lying  eastern  edge 
of  the  midden,  was  a  large  shallow  depression,  the  pit  of  an  old 
house.  To  uncover  this  house  an  excavation,  cut  9,  was  begun.  The 
sod  here  was  thicker  than  at  any  other  part  of  the  midden,  and  below 
it  barren  gravel  continued  to  a  depth  of  2  feet.  The  stone  floor  of 
the  house  was  found  at  a  depth  of  4  feet  (pi.  8,  fig.  3).  Specimens 
found  numbered  294,  and  the  material  was  segregated  according  to 
