de Lagiina] ARCHEOLOGY, YAKUT AT BAY AREA, ALASKA 21 



was only half remembered by one of our informants. We searched 

 for it without success. (For sites 1-6, 14-17, cf. map 4.) 



2. The village on Port Mulgrave, Khantaak Island, was called 

 Su^kA. The modern village, remembered by our informants from 

 the 1880's, was perhaps founded in 1875-80 to take advantage of the 

 visits of trading schooners, but was located at the same spot indicated 

 on Dixon's map of 1787. This village was abandoned by 1893. Exca- 

 vation is impossible because the whole site is covered by a graveyard. 



3. The "Old Village" of Yakutat, about three-fourths of a mile 

 north of the cannery, was founded about 1889 when the mission was 

 built nearby. It is still occupied, although most families moved to the 

 present town of Yakutat in 1919 to build permanent homes near the 

 cannery that had been estabhshed in 1904. Part of the lowland where 

 the original houses stood at the Old Village has been washed away. 



4. Sites were reported on both sides of Canoe Pass, a channel leading 

 east from Johnstone Passage, but we were able to find only a very 

 small shell heap on the island forming the north side of the pass. The 

 deposit consisted of 3 inches of humus, 12 inches of stones, ash, and 

 shells, and 7 inches of concentrated shells (clam, cockle, mussel, and 

 sea urchin) at the bottom, forming a total depth of 22 inches. Only 

 a cut bird bone (C/3), a rectangular slab whetstone of shale (C/2), 

 and a quartzite hammerstone (C/1) were found, which gave no clue 

 to the age of the site, 



5. Although a former village site was reported on the east side of 

 Dolgoi Island, we were unable to locate it. However, a site was 

 discovered near the mouth of a small stream on the south end of the 

 island, about 100 feet from the beach. The site is perhaps 300 feet 

 long and 100 feet wide. Where tested, the deposit consisted of sticky 

 black soil and fire-cracked rocks, only 6 to 10 inches deep, and con- 

 tained a cobble hammerstone (D/2) and a ground slate tool (D/1). 

 That the site may be of considerable age is the fact that a huge tree, 

 fallen in 1952, once grew on the cultural deposit. 



6. Various former camping places were reported on the north end 

 of Khantaak Island, on "Crab Island" nearby, on Krutoi Island, and at 

 the mouth of Humpback Salmon Creek opposite Kratoi Island. Some of 

 these camps were mentioned in stories of Chugach raids, but the site 

 at the stream was said to have been occupied by the Hinyedi, the orig- 

 inal owners of the area. An unsuccessful search was made for it. 

 We also failed to locate the settlement on the north end of Khantaak 

 Island, although it is marked on Dixon's chart near the location 

 of a White man's home whicli we visited. 



7. The important site Tl'Ak^'-'an or "Old Town," on the southern 

 tip of Knight Island, was reported to have been originally settled 

 before the Russians came, but informants differed as to whether 



