144  SMITHSONIAN    MISCELLANEOUS    COLLECTIONS  VOL.    96 
handle  from  the  Hillside  site  is  straight-sided  and  oval  in  cross-section, 
with  the  tip  fashioned  like  plate  38,  figure  2. 
The  20  wooden  handles  from  Miyowagh  fall  into  three  distinct 
groups. 
Type  I  (pi.  38,  fig.  i). — For  end  blade.  Short  (length  10  to  13  cm), 
and  flat ;  blade  slit  2.5  to  4.5  cm  long ;  a  slightly  elevated,  wedge-shaped 
tip  below  which  the  lashing  was  wrapped. 
Ten  examples,  distributed  as  follows:  Cut  7,  2)7  inches.  Cut  18, 
42  inches.  Cut  19,  54  inches;  63  inches  ;  79  inches.  Cut  21,  35  inches. 
Cut  24,  64  inches  (2).  Cut  26,  55  inches  (pi.  38.  fig.  i).  Cut  27,  38 
inches. 
The  specimen  illustrated  is  the  only  one  of  the  type  found  with  the 
blade  intact,  but  another  has  the  tang  remaining  in  place.  All  handles 
of  this  type  seem  designed  for  such  end  blades,  either  of  rubbed  slate 
or  of  chipped  stone  like  that  from  the  Hillside  site  shown  on  plate  29, 
figure  II. 
Type  2  (pi.  38,  fig.  2). — For  side  blade.  Longer  ( 14.5  cm  or  more), 
and  either  round  or  rounded  oval  in  cross-section ;  blade  slit  at  the 
end  5.5  to  8.3  cm  long ;  plain,  pointed  tip  with  ivory  rivet  for  holding 
the  blade  in  place. 
Three  examples:  Cut  13,  29  inches  (pi.  38,  fig.  2).  Cut  18,  36 
inches.   Cut  19,  79  inches. 
Type  J  (pi.  38,  figs.  3,  4). — For  side  blade.  13.8  to  19  cm  long; 
differs  from  type  2  in  having  the  side  blade  set  in  a  long  deep  socket 
instead  of  an  end  slit ;  the  socket  does  not  extend  to  the  tip ;  blade 
held  in  place  by  lashings  above  and  below. 
Four  examples:  Cut  18,  42  inches.  Cut  19,  63  inches.  Cut  23,  64 
inches  (pi.  38,  fig.  3).  Cut  24,  36  inches  (pi.  38,  fig.  4). 
In  the  length  of  the  blade  this  type  approaches  the  ulu,  or  woman's 
knife. 
The  distribution  of  these  three  types  of  knife  handles  is  striking, 
all  having  been  found  in  the  older,  southeastern  section  of  the  midden 
or  in  the  deeper  levels  of  cut  19,  the  southernmost  of  the  cuts  in  the 
northwestern  section.  These  are,  therefore,  types  of  the  Old  Bering 
Sea  culture.  Two  comparable  examples  were  found  at  the  Hillside 
site — plate  29,  figure  11,  and  one  other;  these  are  to  be  included  in 
type  I  ;  the  other  type  from  the  Hillside  site  (pi.  29,  fig.  12)  is  not 
represented  at  Miyowagh. 
In  addition  to  the  knife  handles  enumerated  there  are  two  which 
do  not  fall  into  any  of  the  above  types  and  one  which  is  doubtfully 
classed  as  a  handle.  The  latter,  from  cut  25,  89  inches  deep,  is  26.8 
cm  long,  uval  in  cross-section  and  has  a  blade  slit  only  2.2  cm  long; 
