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denied that the Eyak laiew how to make them (Bii"ket-Smith and 

 de Laguna, 1938, pp. 43, 70). 



The lack of specific mention of designs on Chugach and Eyak 

 blankets and the description in Tikhmenev suggest that they were 

 either plain or had only simple geometric patterns, like that of the 

 Yakutat blanket, for surely anything resembling the elaborate crest 

 patterns of modern ChUkat blankets would have been remarked. 

 On the basis of her detailed study (see pp. 187 ff.), Carolyn Osborne 

 recognizes a northern center for woolen blankets with geometric 

 designs. 



MISCELLANEOUS WORKED BONE, STONE, AND WOOD 



WORKED BONE 



A flat piece of bone from Old Town III, (7.5) cm. long and 1.9 by 

 1 cm., may have been the handle of a tool. There is a shallow cut 

 across one face near the unbroken rounded end. Another possible 

 handle is a flat piece of seal (?) bone, (9.2) cm. long, 2.3 by 1.2 cm., 

 from Old Town II. It is ground on several sides; one end is rounded 

 and smooth, the other broken. A somewhat similar worn bone frag- 

 ment from Old Town II, (4.7) cm. long, has a hole through the rounded 

 end. Also from Old Town III is a cut section of animal rib, 7.8 

 cm. long, \vith one rounded end; the other is damaged. This also 

 may have been a handle. 



A flat piece of whalebone from Old Town III has been whittled 

 into a disk, 1.8 cm. in diameter and 1.2 cm. thick (for a top?). 



In addition, 28 nondescript pieces of bone, most of which appear 

 to be workshop debris, show that bones were split by cutting grooves 

 in one or both surfaces and that bone was also shaped by adzing, 

 whittling, and grinding. Two pieces from Old Town II are the 

 articular ends cut from animal long bones. 



The distribution of these pieces is: 1 from Canoe Pass, 15 from Old 

 Town III, 15 from Old Town II, 2 from Old Town I, and 3 from 

 Old Town, level unknown. It should be noted that these worked 

 bones include fragments of whale or porpoise bone, mostly from Old 

 Town III, of large mammal (bear? and mountain goat), of small 

 mammals, and of birds. 



CHERT CORES, NODULES, AND CHIPS 



Three cores of green chert, two about the size of the fist, from 

 which flakes were struck by direct percussion, are from Old Town 

 III, and another core is from an unknown level. Three nodules 

 of green chert, about 3 by 4 cm., struck from larger pieces, are from 

 Old Town III. 



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