66  SMITHSONIAN    MISCELLANEOUS    COLLECTIONS  VOL.    96 
Level  5  (3  to  4  ft.  deep)  immediately  above  the  roofing  timbers, 
yielded  31  artifacts,  including  the  decorated  pail  handle  (pi.  19,  fig. 
3)  from  a  depth  of  44  inches;  one  harpoon  head  with  Old  Bering 
Sea  decoration,  42  inches  deep;  and  two  other  fragments  from  the 
same  depth.  Between  the  roof  timbers  and  floor  of  the  passage  (level 
6,  4  to  5  ft.  deep)  15  artifacts  were  obtained,  including  one  harpoon 
head  decorated  in  Old  Bering  Sea  style,  found  on  the  floor. 
Cut  16. — This  was  a  narrow  cut,  6  feet  long  by  3  feet  wide,  ad- 
joining cut  9  a  on  the  SE.  It  was  taken  down  in  eight  levels  to  the 
undisturbed  gravel  at  a  depth  of  4  feet  4  inches.  Fifty-five  artifacts 
were  found,  including  a  broken  drying  rack  of  wood  18  inches  deep 
and  two  ivory  gut  scrapers ;  a  wooden  drum  handle  with  a  large  part 
of  the  rim  (pi.  55,  fig.  5)  and  a  long  oval  cup  or  ladle  of  ivory  (pi.  51, 
fig.  12)  22  inches  deep;  ivory  scraper,  Old  Bering  Sea  decoration  (pi. 
16),  30  inches  deep;  ivory  harpoon  head.  Old  Bering  Sea  decoration, 
^y  inches  deep.  At  a  depth  of  30  inches  were  found  12  seal  noses, 
several  of  them  strung  together  on  a  baleen  thong.  These  had  no 
doubt  been  preserved  in  accordance  with  religious  practices  connected 
with  sealing,  such  as  are  still  observed  on  St.  Lawrence  Island, 
Cuts  18,  2^,  2<^,  2^,  and  29. — Excavated  by  M.  B.  Chambers  in 
193 1.  These  five  cuts,  which  were  all  connected,  were  situated  just 
to  the  west  of  the  entrance  to  house  no.  3,  in  a  section  of  the  midden 
which  yielded  an  abundance  of  artifacts  and  interesting  evidence  of 
old  house  structures  at  the  bottom. 
Cut  18,  which  formed  the  NE.  corner  of  the  quadrangular  space 
occupied  by  these  five  cuts  was  6  feet  9  inches  deep  and  was  taken 
down  in  22  levels.  It  yielded  363  artifacts,  including  many  of  those 
which  are  illustrated.  The  28  harpoon  heads  and  fragments  were 
all  of  the  older  types ;  a  fragment  of  a  wrist  guard  from  a  depth  of 
12  inches  has  a  "  modern  "  decoration  of  spurred  lines ;  three  harpoon 
heads  from  depths  of  48,  60,  and  72  inches,  although  belonging  to 
old  types  structurally,  have  the  simple  line  decoration  which  I  have 
called  Punuk  style  i ;  the  others  are  either  plain  or  bear  an  Old  Bering 
Sea  ornamentation.  The  following  harpoon  heads  from  cut  18  are 
illustrated:  plate  24,  figure  3  (78  in.  deep),  figure  17  (48  in.  deep)  ; 
plate  26,  figure  5  (48  in.),  figure  11  (48  in.),  figure  12  (40  in.), 
figure  16  (66  in.)  ;  plate  y2,  figure  i  (60  in.).  Other  objects  bearing 
Old  Bering  Sea  decoration  were  found  at  the  following  depths :  18 
inches  (3)  (pi.  15,  fig.  4)  ;  38  inches;  48  inches  (2)  (pi.  15,  fig.  8, 
and  pi.  19,  fig.  5)  ;  60  inches;  64  inches;  81  inches. 
Cut  23,  adjoining  cut  18  on  the  west,  was  6  by  12  feet  instead  of 
the  usual  12  by  12  feet.    It  was  taken  down  to  a  depth  of  6  feet  10 
