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Hrdlicka,  1932,  fig.  96;  1933,  fig.  44 — Kodiak  Island;  de  Laguna, 
1934,  pi.  52,  figs.  I,  7 — Cook  Inlet).  The  human  carvings  of  the  Old 
Bering  Sea  culture  differ  from  both  of  these  southern  styles.  The 
small  head  carved  in  relief  on  the  adz  handle  from  Miyowagh  (pi. 
I/'  fig-  3)  is  realistic,  but  the  face  is  long  and  relatively  narrow  in 
contrast  to  the  short,  wide  faces  characteristic  of  Kodiak  and  Cook 
Inlet.  The  three  carvings  from  the  Hillside  site  (pi.  12,  figs.  5-7) 
also  have  long  oval  faces ;  furthermore,  the  heads  come  to  a  point  at 
the  top,  in  this  respect  resembling  one  of  the  Cook  Inlet  carvings 
(de  Laguna,  1934,  pi.  52,  fig.  2).  The  latter  has  a  beveled  forehead 
comparable  to  two  of  the  northern  examples:  Plate  14,  figures  3,  4, 
and  the  large  ivory  doll  figured  by  Hrdlicka  (1930,  pi.  26).  In  both 
of  the  latter  and  to  a  certain  extent  in  the  head  from  the  Hillside  site 
(pi.  12,  fig.  7)  a  median  ridge  extends  from  the  forehead  down  the 
long  narrow  nose  dividing  the  face  into  two  sloping  planes.  Faces 
beveled  in  this  manner,  although  often  lacking  features  of  any  kind, 
are  common  in  Siberia,  as  on  the  wooden  fetiches  of  the  Gilyak, 
Koryak,  Yakut,  and  Yeniseians.  In  this  connection  our  plate  14, 
figures  3-4,  and  the  ivory  doll  figured  by  Hrdlicka  are  also  somewhat 
suggestive  of  the  narrow  oval  human  faces  on  Bronze  Age  stone 
pillars  from  the  Minussinsk  region  of  central  Asia  (M.  Griasnov  and 
E.  Schneider,  1929;  H.  Appelgren-Kivalo,  1931). 
With  regard  to  incised  ornamentation,  the  prehistoric  material  from 
the  Alaska  Peninsula,  Aleutian  Islands,  Kodiak,  and  Cook  Inlet  pro- 
vides nothing  comparable  to  the  elaborate  designs  of  fully  developed 
Old  Bering  Sea  art.  However,  some  of  the  simple,  geometric  Old 
Bering  Sea  elements  are  found  in  this  region :  pairs  of  long,  lightly 
incised  parallel  lines  (Jochelson,  1925,  fig.  45;  de  Laguna,  1934,  pi. 
52,  fig.  2)  ;  pairs  of  short  transverse  lines  (de  Laguna,  1934,  pi.  40, 
fig.  2)  ;  and  the  spurred  line  (Jochelson,  1925,  pi.  23,  fig.  4;  text  fig. 
^2  A,  and  de  Laguna,  1934,  pi.  50,  fig.  31 ).  The  latter  element  is  also 
known  from  British  Columbia  (Smith,  1900,  fig.  no). 
Mathiassen  (1929,  pp.  48,  49)  and  Jenness  (1933,  p.  387)  have 
suggested  that  there  may  be  some  connection  between  Old  Bering 
Sea  art  and  the  rich  ornamentation  on  Aleutian  hunting  hats.  Although 
I  can  see  little  resemblance  to  Old  Bering  Sea  art  in  the  painted  geo- 
metric designs  on  these  hats  (Ivanov,  1930,  pis.  5,  9),  there  seems  to 
be  one  possibly  significant  resemblance,  namely,  the  designs  on  some 
of  the  bone  ornaments  attached  to  them  (Ivanov,  pi.  4,  figs.  14,  15). 
Here  we  have  panels  of  curving,  petaloid  shape,  suggestive  of  "  birds 
heads  ",  which  recall  similar  panels  on  such  Old  Bering  Sea  objects 
as  plate  15,  figure  3,  and  plate  21,  figure  4. 
