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 ILLUSTRATIONS 



PLATES 

 (All plates except frontispiece follow p. 226) 



1 . Sites in the Yakutat Bay area. (Frontispiece.) 



2. Knight Island, Yakutat Bay. 



3. Lamp and petroglyph. 



4. Objects of iron. 



5. SpUtting adzes, axes, and war club. 



6. Planing adzes. 



7. Small woodworking tools like miniature adz blades. 



8. Small woodworking tools like chisels and burins. 



9. Stone scrapers and choppers. 



10. Rubbing tools, whetstones, and hammers. 



11. Stone lamps. 



12. Stone lamps. 



13. Barbed bone harpoon heads. 



14. Copper arrowheads, knife blades, and pins. 



15. Bone arrowheads and small weapon points. 



16. Bone chisels, awls, and small tools. 



17. Ornaments. 



18. Twined weaving. 



19. Fragments of Chilkat blanket from shaman's grave, Knight Island, 



Yakutat Bay. 



TEXT FIGURES 



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1. Schematic profile of Mound B, Old Town 37 



2. Storage House and Subsurface Pit 38 49 



3. Plan of House 8 52 



4. Reconstruction of House 8 53 



5. Cross section of Trench 51, through House 8 and House Pit 1 facing 54 



6. Cross section of Trench 53, through House Pit 1 and House 9 facing 58 



7. Plan of House 9 60 



8. Reconstruction of House 9 62 



9. Cross section of Trench 33, through Mound C and House Pit 7 65 



10. Copper knives 102 



11. Knives and scrapers 106 



12. Profiles of stone lamps 119 



13. Blades and points for large weapons 126 



14. Ground slate blades for weapons or knives 128 



15. Barbed heads and wooden pin 132 



16. Wooden objects 140 



17. Barbed points and arrowheads 144 



18. Devices used in fishing and trapping 152 



19. Ornaments 156 



20. Decorated objects 166 



21. Carved and incised stone objects 170 



22. Wooden figurine, floor of Storage House, Old Town II (194) 173 



23. Box fragments and band of grass 176 



24. Wooden objects 182 



25. Diagrams of weave of Chilkat blanket from shaman's grave, Knight 



Island, Yakutat Bay 190 



