do LnRuna] ARCHEOLOGY, YAKUTAT BAY AREA, ALASKA 51 



Bone shaft fragment (205) 



Fused bone (411) 



Slag (200) 



Copper fragment (287) 



2 drift iron blade fragments, pi. 4, e (and 201) 



5 scraps of drift iron (258) 



Barbed wooden spear point, fig. 16, a 



Wooden box fragment (413) 



Wooden pin, fig. 24, d 



12 fragments of worked wood (181, 182, 224, 257, 285, 286, 364, 366, 378, 



386, 415, 425) 

 Fragment of two-ply cord (208) 

 Knotted spruce root (?) (226) 

 Fragments of twined basketry: some with false embroidery, pi. 18, a 



(and 232/233) ; some plain, pi. 18, o (and associated with slate blade, 



fig. 14, a, and with salmonberry seeds) 

 Fill of Storage House {i.e., lower levels of Mound B) 

 2 sea otter harpoon arrowheads, pi. 13, c, e 

 Broken barbed bone arrowhead, fig. 17, A; 

 2 beaver tooth chisels (381, 409) 

 Broken bone knife or scraper (302) 

 Bone awl (?) (406) 

 Fragment of bone shaft (407) 

 Notched cobblestone (295) 

 Cut bone (197) 



Bone figurine worn as pendant, fig. 20, a 

 11 pieces of worked wood (87, 120, 171, 173, 175, 176, 178, 180, 183, 186, 



187) 

 Fragment of two-ply cord (431) 

 2 teeth of wooden comb (?) (179, 184) 



The perishable materials — wood, cordage, and basketry — were 

 preserved because they were charred, probably in the fire that de- 

 stroyed the Storage House. The baskets may have been used to 

 store food and other objects, or to gather berries, as is suggested by the 

 association of salmonberry seeds with one group of undecorated 

 basketry fragments. 



HOUSE 8 



The biu-ned remains of a small house (figs. 3 and 4) were discovered 

 at the bottom of the midden near the southern edge of Mound B 

 (see map 7 and fig. 5). The house (first called "Subsurface Pit 24") 

 was almost 18 feet square, and had been built inside a pit about 20 

 feet square, dug into the sterile sand for a depth of 30 inches. The 

 floor of this pit was level. Vertical wall planks were driven into the 

 sand to a depth of 1 foot, leaving a space about 1 foot wide between 

 the walls and the edges of the pit. Later this space was filled with 

 sandy midden to brace the walls, and the floor planks were laid. 

 Eventually the house was destroyed by a fire that evidently started 

 inside it and consumed all but the floor and the waUs to about 15 



