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quake that fall, the shore was elevated from 7K to 12 feet. Modem 

 camping places are on the south shore of Haenke Island where a flat 

 was raised above sea level by the quake, and on the mainland opposite. 



13. The Tlaxayik-Teqwedi are said to have had a camp on high 

 ground near Bancas Point on the west side of the Bay. 



SETTLEMENTS IN THE ANKAU AREA 



The Ankau lagoon system of Phipps Peninsula is entered from 

 Monti Bay via Ankau Creek, and consists of several salt-water lagoons 

 and lakes. These are connected by streams with Rocky Lake, Aka 

 Lake, and Summit Lake to the southeast. From Summit Lake, 

 near the U.S. Coast Guard Loran Station, Lost River flows southeast- 

 ward to enter the ocean about 11 miles from Ocean Cape. 



14. The site of the Russian post. Nova Rossiysk, ("New Russia") 

 (1796-1805), was on the narrowest part of the barrier beach between 

 the ocean and the largest of the Ankau lagoons ("Russian Lake"). 

 It is supposed to have contained "seven buildings defended by a 

 stockade, and five others outside" (Dall and Baker, 1883, p. 207; 

 see also Tebenkov's map vii, 1852). Although we visited this spot 

 several times with native guides, we were unable to find any trace 

 of the fort. An Indian had a fishing camp and smokehouse at this 

 spot; the ocean has evidently washed away much of the land. The 

 natives also reported that the Russians fortified a small island in the 

 lagoon and erected a "gate" (fish weir?) across the stream, T'awal, 

 that drains Aka and Rocky Lakes into the lagoon. 



In 1948, on or near this stream, a Yakutat native, since dead, found 

 a limestone rock, carved in typical Northwest Coast style to represent 

 a bear (pi. 3, b). We were unable to discover just where it had been 

 found, and although this is the only known petroglyph in the Yakutat 

 area, the natives believed that it commemorated the defeat of the 

 Russians by the Tlaxayik-Teqwedi. The rock was taken to Yakutat, 

 where we saw it, but it later disappeared. 



15. There was a former K"^ackqwan village, "On the Lake," at 

 the middle of the ocean side of Aka Lake. The occupants died in the 

 smallpox epidemic of 1836-39. The site was afterward used as a 

 fish camp until fairly recently. It is now a clearing, but our brief 

 exploration revealed nothing more than broken crockery and scraps 

 of iron. 



16. The stream connecting Aka and Summit Lakes was said to 

 have been a canal, "dug by slaves," which probably means that they 

 deepened or widened it at some point. Moser (1901, p. 383, map on 

 pi. XLViii, Yakutat to Dry Bay) reports that: "The rocks and boul- 

 ders have been removed from the bed, and piled along the side, forming 

 a shallow channel up which canoes are tracked at low water, but may 



