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No  artifacts  of  any  kind  were  found  on  the  floor  of  house  no.  4 
and  few  in  the  refuse  immediately  above.  A  badly  damaged  human 
skull  and  incomplete  skeleton  were  found  resting  on  the  largest  of 
the  floor  stones,  at  about  the  center  of  the  house.  Another  skull,  with 
the  lower  jaw  and  most  of  the  face  missing,  was  found  on  the  floor 
of  the  entrance  passage  46  inches  from  the  SW.  corner  of  the  house. 
House  no.  5. — Of  the  third  house  excavated  at  Miyowagh,  nothing 
remained  except  some  of  the  floor  and  wall  stones  and  an  imperfectly 
preserved  passage  way  which  faced  W.-NW.  (text  fig.  12).  The 
dimensions  of  this  house  were  22  feet  4  inches  long  (in  the  direction 
of  the  passage)  by  19  feet  8  inches  wide;  the  passage  was  16  feet 
long  by  3  feet  wide,  expanding  at  the  front  end  to  a  width  of  5  feet 
8  inches.  The  walls  of  the  passage  had  been  formed  of  upright  slabs, 
and  the  same  was  true  of  the  house  walls  to  judge  from  a  few  slabs 
which  remained  in  place.  Unlike  the  entrances  just  described,  the 
floor  of  this  one  was  at  the  same  level  as  that  of  the  house.  No  timbers 
or  bones  were  found,  nor  any  artifacts.  Since  the  house  was  located 
at  the  north  edge  of  the  midden,  which  section  was  found  to  be  later 
than  the  opposite  side,  this  house  was  probably  one  of  the  latest  to 
be  occupied  at  Miyowagh.  The  floor  was  2  to  3  feet  below  the  surface. 
There  was  no  evidence  as  to  how  the  roof  may  have  been  built ;  pos- 
sibly it  was  of  skin. 
DECORATED    OBJECTS,    OLD    BERING    SEA,    FROM     MIYOWAGH 
The  decorated  objects  from  Miyowagh  included  no  clear  examples 
of  what  has  been  described  above  as  Old  Bering  Sea  style  i.  The 
greater  number  of  them  fall  into  the  more  inclusive  style  2,  the  prin- 
cipal design  elements  of  which  are  shown  in  text  figure  15;  others 
fall  into  what  I  have  tentatively  assumed  to  be  the  still  later  Old  Bering 
Sea  style  3,  the  principal  characteristic  of  which  is  the  predominance 
of  paired  "  eyes."  Stratigraphic  evidence  of  the  sequence  of  the  styles 
is  less  striking  than  at  the  Hillside  site,  where  five  of  the  eight  objects 
decorated  in  style  i  came  from  beneath  the  floor  stones  of  the  two 
houses.  Stylistic  changes  along  the  lines  indicated  undoubtedly  oc- 
curred at  Miyowagh  but  the  evidence  is  less  direct,  as  indeed  might 
be  expected  in  view  of  the  fact  that  there  is  no  sharp  line  of  demarca- 
tion between  styles  2  and  3,  the  latter  being  only  a  modification  and 
in  a  sense  a  simplification  of  the  more  variable  style  2.  The  distribu- 
tion of  the  various  styles  of  decoration  is  shown  in  table  i  (p.  202). 
On  some  of  the  Miyowagh  objects  there  appear  new  design  elements 
and  combinations,  some  of  them  apparently  quite  old,  which  add  to 
