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in  the  corner,  was  a  circular  space  about  2  feet  in  diameter,  probably 
for  storage. 
The  entrance  passage  was  29  inches  wide  and  the  floor  level  16 
inches  below  that  of  the  inner  room.  The  floor,  like  that  of  the  inner 
room,  was  of  flat  stone  slabs  ;  the  walls  were  of  heavier  stones  piled 
one  above  the  other,  and  across  the  tops  of  these  were  laid  the  whale 
ribs  and  jaws  forming  the  roof.  Plate  63,  figure  5,  shows  the  entrance 
passage  before  it  had  been  entirely  uncovered.  The  man  at  the  center 
is  standing  in  the  narrow  part  of  the  passage,  between  the  whale  ribs 
which  formed  the  roof.  In  the  foreground  are  seen  the  fallen  whale 
ribs  of  the  roof  of  an  anteroom — an  enlargement  of  the  passage — 13 
feet  beyond  the  entrance  to  the  inner  room.  This  anteroom  was  an 
oval  chamber  8  feet  8  inches  long  and  7  feet  8  inches  wide.  Plate  63, 
figure  4,  shows  the  west  side  of  it  after  the  fallen  roof  bones  and 
gravel  had  been  cleared  out.  Its  floor  was  of  stone  slabs  sloping  from 
the  sides  toward  the  center,  and  the  walls  of  stones  with  an  occasional 
walrus  humerus  or  whale  vertebra  included.  The  height  of  the  walls 
here  was  slightly  over  3  feet.  The  roof  had  been  constructed  of  whale 
ribs  and  jaws.  In  this  enlargement  of  the  passage,  which  had  no 
doubt  served  originally  as  a  store  room,  were  found  six  human  burials. 
These  had  been  made  after  the  house  had  been  abandoned,  for  they 
were  resting  on  about  2  feet  of  gravel  which  had  accumulated  above 
the  floor.  The  roof,  however,  was  at  least  partly  intact  when  the 
bodies  were  placed  there  for  the  whale  bones  had  fallen  in  on  top  of 
them. 
At  the  southern  end  the  anteroom  contracts  and  then  continues 
again  as  a  narrow  passage  25  inches  wide.  The  walls  and  floor  were 
built  in  the  same  manner  as  those  just  described,  but  the  floor  level 
was  4  inches  above  that  of  the  anteroom.  Across  the  outer  end  of 
the  passage  was  laid  a  long  narrow  slab  of  stone  and  resting  partly  on 
this  and  partly  on  a  whale  rib  laid  across  the  wall  was  a  whale  skull. 
Three  feet  beyond  was  another  whale  skull  which  had  fallen  and  partly 
blocked  the  passage.  The  entrance  to  the  passage  was  apparently  be- 
tween these  two  skulls.  Two  human  skulls  and  a  few  long  bones  were 
found  in  the  outer  entrance  at  the  same  level  as  those  in  the  anteroom. 
The  tops  of  the  walls  of  the  passage  and  anteroom  are  at  present  about 
1  foot  below  the  surface. 
The  cultural  material  found  in  house  no.  8  indicates  that  it  was  con- 
temporaneous with  the  latest  period  at  Seklowaghyaget,  probably  early 
eighteenth  century.  The  fragments  of  lamps  and  cooking  pots  were  all 
of  the  recent  types,  and  one  half  of  a  blue  glass  bead  was  found.  The 
bulk  of  the  material,  however,  is  to  be  classed  as  late  Punuk  as  is 
