de Laguna] ARCHEOLOGY, YAKUTAT BAY AREA, ALASKA 57 



In any case, after the house was burned, the pit was used as a trash 

 dump. The stratigraphy indicates that House 8 was contemporary 

 with the Storage House. Both belong to the early part of Mound B, 

 and the fill in both consists of its lower levels. 

 The following objects were found in House 8: 



Below the floor: 



2 hammerstones, one with red paint (1005, 1009) 



Whetstone (665) 



Drift iron blade fragment, pi. 4, j 



Drift iron nail, found in a small bark-lined pit (651) 



Broken harpoon head, pi. 13, I 



Bird bone point (687) 



Wooden stake (680) 



Piece of skin (646) 

 In container of bath rocks: 



Hamraerstone (1008) 

 hi central box: 



2 broken barbed bone arrowheads (?), fig. 17, c, d 

 On the floor: 



Splitting adz, pi. 5, a 



Broken planing adz, pi. 6, a 



2 small woodworking tools (982, 994) 



Hammerstone (989) 



Whetstone (1003) 



Grinding slab (628) 



Rock with red paint (619) 



Broken head for war club, pi. 5, c 



Wooden plank (744) 

 Just above the floor: 



Small woodworking tool (995) 



2 hammerstones (983, 991) 



Piece of red ocher (903) 



Stone lamp, pi. 11, a, and fig. 12, a 



Broken lamp (1007) 



Curiously shaped limestone pebble (amulet?) (547) 



Section of cut whale rib (1014) 



Fragment of cut wood (1000) 

 Fill of House 8 {i.e., lower levels of Mound B): 



2 small woodworking tools (598, 694) 



Hammerstone (981) 



2 abrading stones or whetstones (985, 986) 



Rubbed stone (956) 



Lump of red ocher (571) 



Cobblestone with red paint (952) 



Chipped slate knife (?) (666) 



Sea otter harpoon arrowhead, fig. 15, 6 



Bird bone awl, pi. 16, o 



Bone peg (621) 



Large quartz crystal (146) 



Mica scrap (907) 



Copper pin, fig. 18, d 



