194 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull, 177 
ESSE QUIBO —> 
—--—-— SHERD AREA 
—- LIMIT OF FORMER 
FIELD CLEARING 
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Ficure 80.—Sketch map of E-3: Yoché, showing the Taruma Phase habitation area and 
limit of the former field clearing. 
slightly darker gray, and ceased to contain sherds. At 57 cm. there 
was a transition to very hard, whitish sandy clay, the natural soil of 
the area. 
Cut 2 was excavated northeast of the center of the site, 5 meters 
in from the riverbank, within the area of maximum sherd concentra- 
tion. Dimensions were 1 by 1 meter. As in Cut 1, the first 8-cm. 
level was sterile. Soil conditions duplicated Cut 1, in both refuse 
and sterile zones. The major difference was that the sherds were 
larger and more abundant in Cut 2. 
E-4° YAKA YAKA 
On the left bank of the Essequibo, half an hour’s paddling down- 
stream from E-1 is the Wai Wai village of Yaka Yaka (fig. 79). The 
house, which is on the 3-meter contour above the December water level 
rather than on the summit of the knoll, is at the front of a large garden 
clearing, which extends over the hill and down the other side. Ex- 
ploration ‘revealed sherds over an area about 16 meters in diameter 
on the eastern part of the highest elevation, 4 meters above the Decem- 
