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constructed  in  a  similar  fashion,  with  a  stone  floor,  walls  of  long  up- 
right stones,  above  which  were  placed  smaller  stones,  and  above  these 
a  roof  of  whale  ribs.  A  unique  feature  of  this  house  was  an  oval 
annex,  evidently  a  cache,  opening  from  the  anteroom  on  the  south 
side  (pi.  64,  fig.  i).  The  floor  of  this  annex  was  of  dirt,  and  it  was 
3  feet  above  the  floor  of  the  passage.  It  had  stone  walls  and  a  roof 
of  whale  ribs.  Two  whale  skulls  were  placed  at  the  point  where  the 
anteroom  narrows  at  the  outer  end,  and  another  at  the  extreme  outer 
end  of  the  passage. 
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Fig.  22. — Plan  and  section  of  house  no.  9,  old  section  of  Gainbell. 
The  cultural  material  from  house  no.  9  was  scanty  but  sufficient  to 
date  it  as  contemporaneous  with  house  no.  8.  Fragmentary  lamps, 
lamp  rests,  and  cooking  pots  were  of  the  modern  types  and  identical 
with  those  found  in  house  no.  8;  a  bone  adz  socket  of  the  type  il- 
lustrated in  plate  78,  figure  19,  from  Seklowaghyaget,  was  also  found; 
there  were  only  two  harpoon  heads,  one  of  them,  weathered  and  pos- 
sibly a  relic,  was  of  open  socket  type  III  (a)  x;  the  other  was  of  the 
later  type  III  (b)  x  with  wedge-shaped  socket. 
House  no.  10. — This  was  one  of  the  latest  of  the  underground 
houses  at  Gambell,  having  been  abandoned,  according  to  native  testi- 
mony, around  50  years  ago.  It  was  situated  on  the  midden  and  appeared 
