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of Nome. This was a large village extending for a considerable 

 distance along the elevated beach separating an inland lagoon from 

 the sea. The depressions of the dwellings, of the usual dipper-with- 

 handle type, are very plain. Old settlers at Nome remember when 

 the village was still occupied. Nearer the sea the beach is said to 

 have been lined with burials, but the storm of 1913 took or covered 

 everything. (See Narrative, p. 90.) 



A small Eskimo settlement existed on a rocky elevation east of 

 Cape Nome. There are some house sites, but the place gives little 

 promise of archeological importance. We found evidence that the 

 site must have been occupied until fairty recentty. Among the 

 bowlders were found two skeletons. 



A larger dead village is located near the mouth of a little stream 

 west of Cape Nome. It is doubtless the Azachagiag of the Zagoskin 

 general map. It gives no great promise archeologically. 



From Nome to Point Spencer there are several old sites, all 

 " dead "; and there are one or two recently " dead " villages on Sledge 

 (the old Aiak or Aziak) Island. Of the coast sites, the most impor- 

 tant is reported to be that at Cape Woolley. It is said to have been 

 the stopping point of the King Islanders and may have been their 

 old mainland village. 



A number of old sites and burial grounds have been seen or learned 

 of in Port Clarence and Salt Lake. They are marked on the map, 

 and those of the lake have been discussed in the Narrative (p. 117). 

 Those on Salt Lake (Imuruk Basin) deserve attention. 



Between Port Clarence and Cape Prince of Wales only one, and 

 that evidently not a very large site, was learned of at Cape York. 



The most important site of the peninsula region is doubtless that 

 at the cape. Thanks to the able local teacher of that time, Mr. Clark 

 M. Garber, I am able to present a detailed map of this locality. It 

 is here that Doctor Jenness in 1926 conducted some excavations with 

 interesting results. But the site has barely been touched. It is the 

 nearest point to Asia. There are ample indications that it has been 

 occupied for a long period and by relatively large numbers of people. 

 Besides the ruined parts and old heaps there are still the skulls and 

 bones of many burials among the rocks about the village, and there is 

 evidence that more are in the ground. It is one of the chief sites of 

 the far northwest for systematic thorough exploration, and such ex- 

 ploration is a growing necessity for all branches of anthropology 

 interested in the problems of the Bering Sea and Asiatic-American 

 connections. 



