hrdliC-ka] ABCHEOLOGY OF WESTERN ESFIMO 195 



89. I gag. — Small village. 



90. Kut (Kutmiut). — Small village on Kut River, head of Scam- 

 mon Bay. 



Cape Romanzof to Northern (Apoon) Pass of the Yukon and 



Northward 



On this coast there is little information since the time of Nelson. 

 There are a number of occupied villages as well as of old sites. The 

 region is bleak and the Eskimo there are reported to live miserably. 



The principal Eskimo villages and sites along the lowermost 

 branch of the Yukon have been given previously. (Fig. 11.) 



From the northernmost jjass of the Yukon to St. Michael Island 

 the coast is poor in Eskimo remains. A site of interest here is the 

 old camping ground, with a few permanent houses, of Pastolik, and 

 there are two small sites farther up the coast. Pastolik to the 

 writer's visit was still occasionally occupied by a few Eskimo fami- 

 lies. There are only three houses, but a relatively large and old 

 cemetery speaks of a larger population, probably camping here in 

 tents during the summer seasons of the past. The burial grounds 

 were found to be rather extensive and give indications of containing 

 human bones as well as artifacts below the present surface (buried 

 by the tundra). The main part of the burial grounds may well 

 repay an excavation. 



St. Michael Island. — Eskimo remains exist on the northeastern 

 point of the island beyond the present white man's village, and also 

 on the rock (Whale Island) opposite this point. During my visit 

 the ground was so overgrown by high weeds that details were 

 hidden. On this same northeastern point near the extension of the 

 white settlement is a small living Eskimo village, most of the in- 

 habitants of which are now of mixed blood. Across St. Michael 

 Bay are said to be some old traces of Eskimo, and Nelson reported 

 an old site in the southern part of the island. Finally at Cape 

 Stephens, in the western extremity of the island, there is " Stebbins," 

 another living village. Nothing could be learned of any human 

 remains on the opposite Stuart Island. 



Norton Sound. — North of St. Michael Island is Norton Sound 

 and Norton Bay. Along the east coast of the Sound there are three 

 villages still occupied, but with old accumulations. It is reported 

 that in this region there are some ruined houses in which mammoth 

 tusks had been used in the construction, but nothing definite could 

 be learned as to the location of these houses and the whole may be 

 but a story. The village of Unalaklik was of importance in the 

 past and its older remains would probably repay excavation. Old 



