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(Heizer, 1956, pp. 53 f.; de Laguna, 1956, p. 273). Otherwise, from 

 Uyak there are only three disk stone beads and a score made from 

 sections of bird bone (Heizer, 1956, pp. 54, 77). Cylindrical amber 

 beads are Imown from the Aleutians. On Kachemak Bay, cylindrical 

 beads of naturally baked red shale were most common, although there 

 were also disk beads of shale, and small rectangular beads of bone 

 and shell (de Laguna, 1934, pi. 50, p. 202). 



A cylindrical coal bead, identical with the Yakutat specimens, 

 was found at Daxatkanada (de Laguna, 1960, p. 121, pi. 10, u); the 

 material undoubtedly had been obtained from the soft-coal beds near 

 Angoon. At the same site there were also tubular beads of bear 

 tooth "ivory" and of bird bone as well as disk-shaped forms of shale, 

 all types represented in Prince William Sound. 



Aside from the Angoon specimens and some disk shell beads from 

 the Haida, no beads are reported archeologically from the northern 

 and central Northwest Coast. Drucker (1943, pp. 58 ff., 122) recog- 

 nizes the following types: dentalia, clamshell disks, tubular sections 

 of bird bone, narrow pieces of mammal bone, and asymmetric lumps 

 of cannel coal. All of these came from the great site at Marpole 

 (Eburne), as did disk beads of stone. Borden (1950, pp. 17, 19, 20) 

 reports disk beads of coal shale from Whalen Farm II, and also stone 

 beads with lenticular cross section from Locarno Beach II, but ascribes 

 to a later period the numerous small disk stone beads found near 

 Locarno Beach. At Cattle Point there were only a few disk beads of 

 jadeite and sheU and a few tubular bird bone beads (King, 1950, 

 p. 61). 



On the whole, the beads from Yakutat, as well as those from Angoon, 

 are more like those of the southwestern Alaskan mainland than of the 

 rest of the Northwest Coast. Tubular beads, other than naturally 

 cylindrical sections of bird bone, seem to be characteristic of the 

 Eskimo. The use of shell for beads and the flat disk shape may have 

 come from the south, for they do not appear in Kachemak Bay until 

 the Third Period (de Laguna, 1934, pp. 202 if.). Flat oval beads of 

 shell and stone, although related to the disk and rectangular forms, 

 are not as yet known outside of Prince William Sound, except for the 

 single oval bone bead from Yakutat. We should have expected 

 tubular bone beads, shell (and shale?) disk beads, and dentalia at 

 Yakutat, and perhaps it was only accidental that no examples were 

 present in our diggings. Disk shell beads were reported from the 

 shaman's grave on Knight Island, and our informants spoke of orna- 

 ments of dentalia. 



COPPER BRACELETS 



There are six bracelets from Old Town, made from pieces of copper 

 that have been folded and hammered into narrow strips or bars with 



