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and 5 feet deep, 30 by 20 feet and 4 feet deep, and 30 by 20 feet and 

 2 feet deep. Two other rectangular depressions and a circular de- 

 pression, about 20 feet in diameter, may also be house pits. Two 

 other circular pits, 12 and 8 feet in diameter and 5 and 3 feet in depth, 

 respectively, were probably for caches. 



None of these surface house remains appears to be very old. A 

 rotted post was found in the corner of one of the smaller pits, and test 

 excavations in the largest house pit uncovered one of the rotted roof 

 beams and a piece of commercial copper sheeting with nail holes. 



The slumped bank and the bed of the river are littered with fire- 

 cracked roclis, pieces of commercial copper, iron nails, frag-ments 

 of china, and scraps of burned bone. Some of the china (49-25-114) 

 has been identified by Arnold R. PilHng, then a graduate student at 

 the University of CaHfornia, as probably of English manufacture 

 between 1830 and 1875. Other pieces are of true Chinese porcelain, 

 later than Canton ware, but similar to that introduced into California 

 about 1850. 



The following objects of native manufacture were found on the 

 bank of the river: a planing adz blade (pi. 6, d), a sandstone slab 

 possibly used as a saw to cut stone (49-25-109), a hammerstone 

 (-1 10), a piece of worked greenstone (-111), and half of a round sandstone 

 lamp like a complete specimen previously found here by one of the 

 Yakutat natives (pi. 3, a). The same man also found two stone 

 blades for splitting adzes. There was also a small whetstone (pi. 10, d) 

 a scraper made of copper (see fig. 11,/), and an iron dagger (see fig. 

 13, b). 



This material indicates habitation in both prehistoric and modern 

 times. 



20. A small site on the west side of Little Lost River, about one- 

 half mile above its confluence with the western branch of Lost 

 River, is called "Shallow Water Town" (in THngit?), and is supposed 

 to have been the oldest village of the L'uxedi. It was acquired by the 

 Tlingit Teqwedi, and finally given by a Teqwedi chief to his K'^ack- 

 qwan brother-in-law, who planted native tobacco here. The site 

 is a clearing about 200 feet long, about 75 feet wide, and some 20 feet 

 above the streambed. There are no cultural deposits in the cut 

 bank. An indefinite depression, about 20 by 20 feet, may be a house 

 pit. Our two test holes indicated cultural deposits to depths of 10 

 andj20 inches, consisting of humus, ash, charcoal, and a few fire- 

 cracked roclvs. Three blue glass beads of the kind seen by Captain 

 Cook in Prince WiUiam Sound in 1778 (S/2), an iron arrowhead (S/l), 

 and a lump of red ocher were found. These may date from late 

 protohistoric times, but fail to corroborate the native claim for great 

 antiquity. 



