de Laguna] ARCHEOLOGY, YAKUT AT BAY AREA, ALASKA 141 



or triangular slate blades from Kachemak Bay III and late prehistoric 

 Chugach sites with sharp points but dull edges (de Laguna, 1934, 

 pi. 32, 12; 1956, pis. 28, 9, 29, 8, p. 155). Three somewhat similar 

 blades were found at Cattle Point (King, 1950, fig. 11,9, 10), but it is 

 uncertain whether these constitute a definite type. 



COPPER ARROWHEADS 



Five copper arrowheads were found at Old Town and a similar 

 specimen of iron came from Shallow Water Town on Little Lost 

 River. These all have leaf-shaped blades that are thickest in mid- 

 section, sloping shoulders, and narrow pointed tangs. The latter are 

 square or rectangular in cross section and differ greatly in length. 



One specimen with very long stem is from Old Toa\'ti II (pi. 14, a). 

 The total length is 15.6 cm. although the blade itself is only 5 cm. 

 long. Along the medial ridge on each surface a line of triangular 

 dots has been stamped, perhaps as an owner's mark. Another 

 long-stemmed head (pi. 14, c) is from Old Town III, and measures 

 9.8 by 1.9 cm. 



Three specimens with short tangs (pi. 14, h, d, e) range in length 

 from 6.4 to 7.2 cm., in \vidth from 1.5 to 1.7 cm., and in thickness 

 from 0.2 to 0.3 cm. Two are from Old Town III, the third from Old 

 ToAvn II. The stem of the last has been wound with two-ply S-tmst 

 sinew (?) thread, probably to make it fit more snugly into the socket 

 of the arrowshaft. 



A fragment of copper from Old Town III may have been intended 

 for a small arrowhead. 



There are also five copper pins, rectangular in cross section, which 

 resemble stems for arrowheads, although identification is impossible. 

 Three (pi. 14, g, i) are from Old Town III, and one from Old Town I 

 (pi. 14,/). The longest of all (pi. 14, j), measuring 9.1 cm., is from 

 Old Town II, and while similar to the long stem on the arrowhead 

 from the same part of the site (pi. 14, a), it may have been an awl, 

 since it was found with some (mountain goat?) wool. 



The copper arrowheads from Old To-wti are not unlike late prehistoric 

 Chugach specimens, heads from Dixthada near Tanacross on the 

 upper Tanana, and from presumably Tutchone sites in southwestern 

 Yukon Territory, although each area has its own local style (de 

 Laguna, 1956, pi. 36, 19, pi. 37, 10; Rainey, 1939, fig. 3, 10, 12, IJ^; 

 MacNeish, 1960, pi. vi, li., 5). Copper arrowheads are reported on 

 the Northwest Coast only from the Chilkat Tlingit (Drucker, 1950, 

 Trait 506), a group that maintained close trade contacts \vith the 

 interior Athabaskans from whom most of the native copper on the 

 coast was obtained. 



