tie Laguna] ARCHEOLOGY, YAKUTAT BAY AREA, ALASKA 219 



Plate 4 

 Objects of iron. 



a, Drift iron nail, wrapped with organic material, from just below surface of 



fill in House Pit 1, Old Town III (No. 616). 



b, Fragmentary drift iron knife, from just above floor of Storage House, Old 



Town II (No. 201). 



c, Drift iron nail, from fill of House 9, Old Town III (No. 652). 



d, Drift iron nail, from Mound B, lower levels. Old Town II (No. 552). 



e, Fragmentary drift iron knife blade, from just above floor of Storage House, 



Old Town II (No. 198). 



f, Drift iron nail, from fill of House Pit 1, Old Town III (No. 1002). 



g, Awl made of drift iron, from Mound B, lower levels. Old Town II (No. 141). 



h, Drift iron knife blade from below floor level of House 9, Old Town III 



(No. 896). 

 t. Commercial iron blade for knife or spear, from Nessudat (No. N/4). 

 j, Fragmentary drift iron knife blade, from below floor of House 8, Old Town 



II (No. 780). 

 k, Drift iron blade for planing adz or scraper, from Subsurface Pit 32, 



Mound B, lower levels, Old Town II (No. 280). 

 I, Drift iron blade for planing adz or chisel, from Mound A, level unknown. 



Old Town III (49-25-27). 

 Photograph by Reuben Goldberg. 



Plate 5 



Splitting adzes, axes, and war club. 



a, Blade for splitting adz, fine-grained metamorphic rock, with narrow butt, 



three grooves and three knobs, from fill of House 8, Old Town II (No. 617). 



b, Blade for splitting adz, greenstone, with two grooves and three knobs, cached 



with d under a grinding slab (No. 741) in fill of House Pit 1, Old Town III 

 (No. 713). 



c, Broken head for war club, hard crystalline rock, from floor of House 8, Old 



Town II (No. 980). 



d, Blade for splitting adz, greenstone, with three or four grooves, found with 



b in fill of House Pit 1, Old Town III (No. 714). 



e, Ax blade, greenstone (seen from above), reshaped from broken sphtting adz 



(?), from Mound B, upper levels. Old Town III (No. 578). 

 /, Broken blade for splitting adz, greenstone, with narrow butt, four grooves 



and two knobs, from Mound B, upper levels. Old Town III (49-25-53). 

 g, Broken greenstone blade for splitting adz, used as a hammer, from Mound B, 



upper levels. Old Town III (No. 885). 

 h, Broken blade for splitting adz, greenstone, with knob and one or two grooves, 



partially reshaped (for planing adz?), from Mound B, upper levels, Old 



Town III (No. 884). 

 i, Ax blade, fine-grained metamorphic rock (seen from the side), reshaped for 



planing adz (?), from just above floor of Storage House, Old Town II (No. 



229). 

 Photograph by Reuben Goldberg. 



