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21. Several houses and tent frames mark the modern Indian fish 

 camp on the west side of the mouth of Lost River. Two native houses 

 on the east bank of the river, at the end of an abandoned railway spur 

 from the cannery at Yakutat, opposite tlie mouth of the west branch, 

 were built in 1919 but are no longer occupied. One house at the end 

 of the railway was formerly ornamented by two carved wooden brown 

 bear paws, from which it derived its name, but these were stolen in 

 the summer of 1952. 



22. Situk Village was on the east bank of Situk River, and extended 

 between the railway trestle and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

 station. It was founded by the Teqwedi about 1875-80, and was 

 abandoned about 1916 (?). The site is marked by a few graves and 

 the remains of collapsed framehouses. In the clearing opposite the 

 Fish and Wildlife station there are some cache pits, about 3 feet in 

 diameter and 8 inches deep. Those explored contained only ashes, 

 rocks, and an iron bolt. In the river above the Government weir, 

 men at the station found a grooved maul head, carved to represent an 

 animal (see fig. 21, d). We were unable to discover any trace of an 

 earlier site, although there may have been one. 



23. "Eagle Fort," reported to consist of four houses connected by 

 tunnels and surrounded by a palisade, was built by the Tlaxayik- 

 Teqwedi shortly after 1805 because they feared Russian retahation. 

 Here they repulsed an attack by the Tl'ulmaxAdi from Akwe River, 

 but were defeated the next spring at WuganiyE (site 12) in Yakutat 

 Bay. We were unable to visit the site of this fort. The name for 

 the locality is known by both Eyak and THngit words. 



24. A single Tl'uknaxAdi house was built about the middle of the 

 last century on Johnstone Slough, about 1^ miles above the end of 

 the railway from Yakutat. The fish camp at the mouth of Johnstone 

 Slough and Situk River is modern. 



25. The main village of the Drum House branch of the Tlingit 

 Teqwedi was reported on the Ahrnldin River, about 2 miles above the 

 mouth, apparently near the confluence of the two main branches. 

 The village and also the river were named "Big Town of the Animals" 

 (Tlingit), referring to the rich hunting in the area. There were said 

 to have been four houses there, and the river, now undercutting the 

 site, exposes charcoal to a depth of 4 feet. The village was abandoned 

 when most of the inhabitants died, either in a feud or from smallpox. 

 A Teqwedi settlement on the Alirnklin, called "Wolf Cave," may be 

 the same place, or possibly a lineage house at this town. 



There are said to have been no villages on Dangerous River, but the 

 Teqwedi are supposed to have Uved on Itaho River before they pur- 

 chased the Ahrnklin area from the StaxAdi. There were some 



