r04  SMITHSONIAN    MISCELLANEOUS    COLLECTIONS  VOL.    96 
Open  socket  type  III  x. — Two  lashing  slots ;  a  prominent,  asym- 
metrical spur  which  is  trif urcated,  bifurcated,  or  otherwise  irregular ; 
single  line  hole,  below  which  there  is  usually  a  groove  into  which  the 
lashing  slots  open  ;  end  blade,  parallel  with  the  line  hole  ;  usually  small 
barbs  along  the  edges;  oval  in  cross-section;  decorated  (Old  Bering 
Sea  or  early  Punuk)  or  plain.    (PI.  23,  fig.  4;  pi.  24,  figs.  11-23.) 
Four  examples  described  previously,  one  by  Mathiassen  from  Bering 
Strait,  and  three  by  the  writer,  two  from  northern  Alaska,  exact 
locality  unknown,  and  one  from  Kukuliak,  St.  Lawrence  Island 
(Mathiassen,  1929,  fig.  20;  Collins,  1929,  pi.  2,  a-e). 
Three  heads  of  this  type  were  found  at  the  Hillside  site,  one  of 
which  is  shown  in  plate  23,  figure  4.  Half  of  the  tip  is  broken  and 
the  remaining  half  reworked  into  a  reamer.  The  spur  is  formed 
of  one  long,  pointed  prong  to  which  is  attached  another,  shorter 
and  squared  oflf  at  the  end.  Plate  23,  figure  7,  from  house  no.  i, 
exhibits  some  of  the  features  of  type  HI  x  but  is  not  assigned  thereto 
because  of  its  small  size  (6.1  cm  long)  and  its  flat,  squarish  sides. 
Neither  the  line  hole  nor  the  socket  has  been  completed. 
Type  HI  x  is  one  of  the  most  characteristic  forms  at  Miyowagh, 
and  one  which  is  of  particular  importance  because  of  the  evidence  it 
afifords  of  the  transition  from  the  Old  Bering  Sea  to  the  Punuk.  It 
is  represented  by  25  examples.  Twenty-one  are  from  the  older,  south- 
eastern section  of  the  midden,  distributed  as  follows :  Cut  7,  62  inches 
(pi.  24,  fig.  20)  ;  67  inches  (pi.  24,  fig.  16)  ;  92  inches  (pi.  24,  fig. 
11)  ;  96  inches  (pi.  24,  fig.  13).  Cut  9,  12  inches;  24  inches  (pi.  24, 
fig.  23).  Cut  9  a,  18  inches  (2)  ;  26  inches  (pi.  24,  fig.  14)  ;  36  inches 
(pi.  24,  fig.  18)  ;  48  inches  (pi.  24,  fig.  15).  Cut  18,  18  inches;  29 
inches;  38  inches;  48  inches  (2)  (pi.  24,  fig.  17).  Cut  23,  14  inches 
(pi.  24,  fig.  21)  ;  22  inches.  Cut  24,  62  inches.  Cut  27,  16  inches; 
29  inches  (pi.  24,  fig.  12).  Four  are  from  the  northwestern  section 
of  the  midden,  from  the  following  cuts  and  depth:  Cut  i,  30  inches 
(pi.  24,  fig.  22)  ;  53  inches.  Cut  3,  20  inches  (pi.  24,  fig.  19).  Cut  6, 
55  inches. 
The  harpoon  heads  of  this  type  display  considerable  variability, 
ranging  from  those  of  large  size,  with  a  very  prominent  divided  spur 
and  an  elaborate  Old  Bering  Sea  ornamentation  (pi.  24,  figs.  11-16) 
to  those  of  smaller  size  in  which  the  spur  is  simpler,  though  still  ir- 
regular, and  in  which  the  ornamentation  is  reduced  to  the  simple  lines 
of  the  early  Punuk  (pi.  24,  figs.  19-21,  23).  There  is  clear  strati- 
graphic  evidence  that  these  smaller  and  simpler  heads  are  later  than 
the  others,  but  since  there  is  no  sharp  dividing  line  between  them 
typologically,  they  are  here  all  grouped  together. 
