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had  to  be  preserved.  It  was  no  doubt  this  whale  bkibber,  stored  in 
underground  caches  all  over  the  midden,  that  i^ermeated  the  gravel. 
Remains  of  stone  and  whale  bone  caches  were  found  in  three  of  the 
cuts.  Plate  63,  figure  i,  shows  a  mass  of  fallen  whale  bones  and  stones 
which  seemed  to  be  part  of  such  a  cache,  lying  above  a  piece  of  blubber 
soaked  walrus  hide. 
HOUSE    AT    SEKLOWAGHYAGET 
House  no.  S. — This  house,  the  best  preserved  of  its  type  that  we 
excavated,  was  not  situated  on  the  Seklowaghyaget  midden  but  on 
LONCtTUOl/^AL     CffOSS    S£CTiON     A  TO  £ 
Fig.  21. — Plan  and  section  of  house  no.  8,  Seklowaghyaget. 
the  gravel  flat  a  short  distance  to  the  eastward.  It  consisted  of  a  rect- 
angular inner  room  i8  feet  long  by  15  feet  wide  (text  fig.  21  and 
pi.  63,  figs.  2,  3)  and  an  entrance  passage  30  feet  long  facing  to  the 
south.  The  walls  of  the  inner  room,  mostly  fallen,  had  been  built  of 
walrus  skulls,  whale  vertebrae,  and  stones.  The  floor,  which  is  2.\ 
to  4^  feet  below  the  surface,  was  covered  with  flat  stone  slabs  and 
was  somewhat  sunken  at  the  center.  At  the  entrance,  on  the  south 
side,  a  small  whale  skull  was  driven  into  the  gravel,  the  flat  occipital 
portion  serving  as  a  threshold  over  which  the  occupants  crawled  as 
they  entered  or  left  the  house.  To  either  side  of  the  whale  skull  was 
a  long  upright  stone  slab.  On  the  east  side  of  the  entrance  a  number 
of  stones  and  whale  vertebrae  were  piled  up  around  a  projecting  whale 
jaw,  the  only  one  of  the  roof  supports  still  standing,  and  just  beyond, 
