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Ficure 23.—Sketch map of N-15: Hotokwai, a habitation site of the Mabaruma Phase. 
sand below the refuse layer. A 1- by 1-meter test excavation near 
the creek produced only 40 sherds and a few fire-burnt stones. 
N-16: AKAWABI CREEK 
N-16 has two occupations, a shell midden belonging to the Alaka 
Phase and a later site belonging to the Mabaruma Phase. The details 
of the site location are given under the Alaka Phase (pp. 33-34) and 
will not be repeated here (figs. 4, 22). 
Whereas the Alaka Phase midden occupies a very small area near 
the bank of Akawabi Creek, the Mabaruma Phase refuse extends 75 
meters inward from the bank and 100 meters north-south along the 
edge (fig. 24). Behind the site, some 300 meters away, Akawabi Hill 
rises 4 to 5 meters above the site elevation. Its slopes are covered with 
clumps of bamboo. The major portion of the site area has suffered 
from recent disturbance, especially leveling of the surface. Conse- 
quently, little reliable data could be obtained about the depth of the 
refuse deposit. Sherds occur on the surface, on the eroded slopes 
leading to the swamp and the creek, and in the path that had been 
cut through the rise separating the school building from the creek. 
In the walls of this path, Mabaruma Phase sherds were found in 
