dc Laguna] ARCHEOLOGY, YAKUT AT BAY AREA, ALASKA 59 



soil to a total depth of 63 inches below the present surface, was 33 

 inches below the northern end of the floor plank marked F on the 

 plan of House 9 (fig. 7). A post in this hole may have supported the 

 other end of the same ridge beam. 



A surprising feature was that no rubbish, animal bones, or artifacts, 

 were found on the floor of House Pit 1, although there were many- 

 such finds in the fill. Other than the postholes and the scanty traces 

 of charred beams or planks already mentioned, there is no clear 

 evidence that a house was actually erected in the pit. Perhaps the 

 structm-e was biu-ned before it was completed and the undamaged 

 timbers were salvaged. Or, the house may have been abandoned 

 and dismantled, so that few traces were left. The timbers may have, 

 of course, simply rotted. Below the floor level were a few pits or 

 depressions in which some artifacts were found. 



It is difficult to separate the material found in' the fill of House Pit 

 1 witli that associated with House 9, especially as the former may 

 actually have been derived from House 9. Conversely, some of the 

 material found below the floor of House 9 or in the fill of that building 

 may have come from buildings erected before it (House 1) or after it. 

 All of this material is approximately contemporaneous in age. If 

 there was actually a large multifamily dwelling in House Pit 1, that 

 building must have been kept clean and have been voluntarily aban- 

 doned ; not destroyed with most of its contents, as was the fate of the 

 Storage House and Houses 8 and 9. 



In pits below the floor level of House Pit 1: 

 Hammerstone (673) 



4 hammerstone-abraders (667, 668, 987, 988) 

 Grinding stone with red paint (743) 



2 stones with red paint (706, 992) 

 2 stone lamps, pL 12, e (and 738) 

 Coal bead, pi. 17, x 

 Lump of coal (623) 

 Copper bracelet, fig. 19, d 

 Coil of copper wire (701) 

 Scrap of copper (996) 

 Fill of House Pit 1, including shallow fill above House 9: 



2 splitting adzes, pi. 5, b, d, found under a grinding slab (741) 

 Planing adz or ax, pi. 6, i 



Unfinished planing adz (826) 



5 adz fragments (634, 723, 761, 762, 763) 



3 celts for hatchets or small axlike tools, pi. 6, g, and pi. 7, i (and 827) 

 5 small woodworking tools, pi. 7, g, I, and pi. 8, j (and 828, 957) 



10 hammerstones (508, 599, 649, 670, 707, 712, 724, 823, 933, 939) 



5 hammerstone-abraders (647, 672, 725, 726, 939) 



Pestle or hand hammer (730) 



2 grinding slabs (531, 741), the latter over the two adz blades, pi. 5, 6, d 



2 whetstones (704, 824) 



4 stones with red paint (521, 745, 797, 990) 



