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floor space. The eastern and central planks were fastened together 

 at the ends near the doorway. Here a rectangular area had been 

 chiseled into their lower surfaces, into which was fitted a flat wooden 

 crossbar. The latter was secured by a lashing of split spruce root 

 that passed between a pair of holes in each plank. This arrangement 

 may have been intended to facilitate lifting the floor planks in order 

 to reach the pit below. 



The structure was probably roofed, but of this we have no direct 

 evidence because fire had destroyed all of the upper part of the house. 

 The quantities of carbonized moss and grass, found between the floor 

 planks, between these and the waUs, and under fragments of charred 

 wood fallen on the floor, suggest that the Storage House had been 

 chinked at floor, walls, and roof (?), presumably to prevent the con- 

 tents from freezing. 



Identification of this structure as a cache was based partly on the 

 following artifacts found in it and in the pit below. 



In Subsurface Pit 38: 



Point of a large double-edged slate blade, another fragment of which 

 was found in the lower levels of Mound B above the Storage House, 

 fig. 14, b 



2 barbed bone points for arrows (or leisters), fig. 17, b, I 



Bone barb for gaff or fish spear, fig. IS, g 

 Below floor of Storage House: 



Bird bone tube (422) 



Bone shaft fragment (420) 



Wooden spatula, fig. 24, c 



Wooden blade, fig. 24, 6 

 On floor of Storage House: 



Ulo with wooden handle and copper blade, fig. 10, a 



Whetstone, pi. 10, c 



Bear canine, pi. 16, i 



Wooden comb, fig. 20, c 



Wooden figurine, fig. 22 



Fragments of 2 wooden boxes or dishes, fig. 2.3, a, b, b' 



Wooden rod scarfed at both ends, fig. 16, d 



2 spatulate wooden objects, fig. 24, a (and 416) 



Fragment of bidarka rib (?), fig. 24, e 



Fragments of twined grass or bark matting (418) 



Fragments of carbonized two-ply cord (195, 196, 254, 365) 



Band of strung ryegrass stems, fig. 23, d, d' 



Calcined bone fragments (428) 



2 fragments of cut wood (199, 284) 

 Just above floor of Storage House: 



Stone ax, pi. 5, i 



Cobblestone anvil (392) 



Small stone lamp (412) 



Slate blade for arrow or knife, fig. 14, a (associated with basketry fragments, 

 pi. 18, a) 



Broken barbed point for arrow (?) (288) 



