de Laguna] ARCHEOLOGY, YAKUTAT BAY AREA, ALASKA 



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PLAN OF STORAGE HOUSE 



■ Excavated 



Reconstruction 



Obscured FROM VIEW 



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PLANK LASHING TECHNIQUE: 

 Bottom -View 



CROSS SFCTION 



Su bsurrace Pit 38 



PLAN VIEW 



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Figure 2. — Storage House and Subsurface Pit 38. Drawn by Donald F. McGeeln. 



inches. The entrance was at the south end where a horizontal plank 

 (A), 40 inches long and 13 inches wide, formed a sill some 7 inches 

 high. Two posts and the small vertical planks (5,5), 5K inches wide, 

 20 inches long, and K inch thick, formed the sides of the doorway. One 

 of the wall planks (CO, 48 inches long and 15 inches wide, was set on 

 edge. 



The three floor planks, 81 inches long and 11 to 25 inches wide, 

 rested directly on the sandy bottom of the pit. They had probably 

 been inserted after the walls were erected, since the westernmost 

 plank overlapped the central one and had not been trimmed to fit the 



