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This  is  a  relatively  unimportant  type,  represented  by  the  two  speci- 
mens shown  in  plate  28,  figures  23  and  24,  from  cut  27,  depth  22 
inches,  and  cut  20,  depth  12  inches  respectively.  It  is  a  variant  of 
type  V  X,  from  which  it  is  distinguished  by  the  presence  of  pairs  of 
small  lateral  barbs.  Although  these  appear  to  be  primarily  decora- 
tive, they  may  also  have  been  functional  to  a  certain  extent.  Figure 
23  is  of  bone;  its  graceful,  flowing  contour  and  the  marked  elevations 
suggestive  of  "  eyes  "  around  the  line  hole  and  on  the  spur  bring  this 
specimen  into  close  relationship  to  the  Old  Bering  Sea  forms.  The  line 
decoration,  however,  is  rather  simple.  After  part  of  the  upper  end 
had  broken,  a  blade  slit  was  cut  in  the  remaining  tip  at  right  angles 
to  the  line  hole  and  the  original  blade  slit.  The  second  harpoon  head 
of  this  type,  plate  28,  figure  24,  is  clearly  younger,  coming  as  it  does 
from  the  surface  layer  of  the  latest  section  of  Miyowagh,  and  bearing 
a  decoration  in  the  more  developed  Punuk  style.  The  design  above 
the  line  hole — a  V  or  Y-shaped  figure — is  closest  to  that  of  plate  28, 
figure  14.  The  decoration  on  the  spurs  consists  of  deep  round  pits 
at  the  center  of  rather  lightly  incised  mechanically  made  circles,  each 
circle  connected  to  a  line  that  descends  obliquely  from  a  line  near 
the  center. 
Closed  socket  type  V  y  (pi.  28,  figs.  25-28). — The  type  was  de- 
fined on  page  iii.  In  all,  it  is  represented  at  Miyowagh  by  21  ex- 
amples. Twelve  of  them  came  from  the  older,  southeastern  section 
and  have  been  described  with  the  Old  Bering  Sea  forms ;  ten  of  them 
were  decorated  in  Old  Bering  Sea  style,  two  were  undecorated.  The 
remaining  nine  are  from  the  northwestern  section  of  the  midden, 
five  of  them  decorated  in  Punuk  style,  four  undecorated.  They  are 
distributed  as  follows:  Cut  i,  30  inches  (pi.  28,  fig.  26).  Cut  2, 
28  inches  (pi.  28,  fig.  25);  40  inches.  Cut  19,  12  inches  (2);  30 
inches;  59  inches  (2)  (pi.  28,  fig.  27).  Cut  20,  12  inches  (pi.  28, 
fig.  28). 
The  harpoon  heads  of  this  type  which  are  decorated  in  Punuk  style 
are  as  a  group  considerably  smaller  than  the  Old  Bering  Sea  heads 
of  the  same  type.  The  smallest  of  these  is  plate  28,  figure  2y,  only 
5.7  cm  long.  Like  plate  28,  figure  17,  and  plate  26,  figure  8,  it  has 
plugs  of  baleen  set  in  the  small  round  pits,  a  feature  which  appears 
to  be  characteristic  of  a  rather  early  stage  of  the  Punuk.  Plate  28, 
figure  28,  is  the  only  harpoon  head  found  at  Miyowagh  having  the 
large  nucleated,  mechanically  made  circles  of  the  fully  developed 
Punuk  (Punuk  style  2),  although  two  other  heads  (pi.  28,  figs.  10 
and  24)  have  smaller,  more  faintly  incised  circles  of  the  same  kind. 
The  two  latter  specimens  should  probably  be  regarded  as  intermediate 
