NO.    I  ARCHEOLOGY    OF    ST.    LAWRENCE    ISLAND COLLINS  IO7 
Two  heads  of  this  type  were  found  at  the  Hillside  site  (pi.  23, 
figs.  5,  6).  Figure  5,  from  house  no.  i,  is  unusual  in  having  a  series 
of  four  sharp  barbs  bordering  the  blade  slit  on  one  side.  The  un- 
finished head,  figure  6,  from  the  upper  level  of  the  midden,  was  clearly 
designed  to  have  had  the  blade  slit  at  right  angles  to  the  line  hole. 
The  latter  was  made  in  an  unusual  manner :  the  hole  first  drilled  was 
not  well  centered,  and  evidently  to  correct  this,  the  hole  was  filled 
with  a  cylindrical  ivory  plug  (not  a  drill  core)  and  another  hole 
drilled  adjoining  it  at  the  center. 
The  broken  specimen,  figure  8,  from  house  no.  2,  is  difficult  to 
classify.  The  spur,  while  not  symmetrical,  lacks  the  marked  asym- 
metry of  type  III.  Instead  of  two  lashing  slots,  it  has  a  single  slot 
with  an  opposite  groove.  Decoration  consists  of  short  detached  lines, 
carelessly  incised.  On  the  whole  it  seems  best  to  defer  classification 
of  this  particular  specimen  until  additional  examples  have  come  to 
light. 
From  Aliyowagh  we  have  12  examples  of  type  III  y.  Eight  of 
these  are  from  the  older,  southeastern  section,  distributed  as  follows : 
Cut  7,  depth  16  inches  (pi.  26,  fig.  4).  Cut  9,  48  inches  (pi.  26,  fig.  7). 
Cut  9a,  36  inches  (pi.  26,  fig.  i).  Cut  18,  48  inches  (pi.  26,  fig.  5). 
Cut  23,  58  inches  ;  81  inches  (pi.  26,  fig.  2).  Cut  24,  13  inches  (pi.  26, 
fig.  10)  ;  54  inches  (pi.  26,  fig.  3). 
Four  come  from  the  later,  northwestern  section,  as  follows :  Cut  6, 
26  inches  (pi.  26,  fig.  6).  Cut  19,  24  inches  (pi.  26,  fig.  9)  ;  51  inches 
(pi.  26,  fig.  8).   Cut  20,  22  inches. 
The  range  of  variation  parallels  that  of  type  III  x,  and  includes 
heads  of  both  Old  Bering  Sea  and  early  Punuk  age.  The  earlier  ex- 
amples are  large,  with  prominent  divided  spurs  and  typical  Old  Bering 
Sea  ornamentation  (pi.  26,  figs.  1-3).  The  later  forms  are  reduced 
in  size,  have  simplified  spurs  which,  however,  are  still  irregular,  and 
ornamentation  when  present  is  early  Punuk  (pi.  26,  figs.  6-10).  The 
Old  Bering  Sea  heads  had  prominent  "  eyes  "  formed  of  concentric 
circles  which  occupied  rounded  elevations  on  either  side  of  the  line 
hole,  on  the  spur,  and  sometimes  near  the  tip.  In  the  early  Punuk 
heads  these,  along  with  the  other  elements  of  Old  Bering  Sea  art,  are 
absent,  although  the  idea  survives  in  the  slight  elevations  around  the 
line  hole  which  are  sometimes  accentuated  by  having  a  small  circular 
pit  at  the  center.  In  figure  8  these  pits  are  filled  with  small  cylindrical 
plugs  of  baleen. 
A  characteristic  feature  of  the  harpoon  heads  of  type  III  y  and  of 
most  others  which  have  the  blade  slit  at  right  angles  to  the  line  hole 
is  the  prominent  median  ridge  which  extends  downward  from  the 
tip  to  the  line  hole. 
