. Bulletin. Ethnology. 54 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 172. North 100 yards Fort ^v^* .-' root cellar , ° sheer " -——>^/<Ik^ oo, RAVEN DRUM i. :av reef garden/ x^^ smokehouse —-^ ^ and cabin ^ W X X Indicates test pits Figure 3.—Site in Chaik Bav. up a barbed harpoon head on the beach below, which had evidently- fallen from the midden above. On the beach between the fort and VUlage Point is a cabin, in the floor of which a deep pit (cellar, sweat bath?) had been dug through about 20 inches of midden deposit. Test pits outside the house encountered only scanty and superficial
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 54 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 172. North 100 yards Fort ^v^* .-' root cellar , ° sheer " -——>^/<Ik^ oo, RAVEN DRUM i. :av reef garden/ x^^ smokehouse —-^ ^ and cabin ^ W X X Indicates test pits Figure 3.—Site in Chaik Bav. up a barbed harpoon head on the beach below, which had evidently- fallen from the midden above. On the beach between the fort and VUlage Point is a cabin, in the floor of which a deep pit (cellar, sweat bath?) had been dug through about 20 inches of midden deposit. Test pits outside the house encountered only scanty and superficial evidence of former occupation. A Decitan man is said to have been buried north of Village Point (Goldschmidt and Haas, 1946, p. 115). On the flat east of the fort was the site of the former village called yel gawu, ''Raven's Drum," or yel gawku, "Raven's Little ; Here there are a number of cabins, smokehouses, root cellars, and remains of old gardens, scattered along the shore of the cove for a distance of about 500 yards. Part of the gardens are grown over by young spruce. About 30 feet back in the larger timber behind the clearing, a fallen tree, about 2 feet in diameter, had exposed traces of midden. This consisted of an 18-inch deposit of gravel, containing a few shells and fire-cracked rocks, which rested on beach sand. This is perhaps the oldest part of the site, but does not seem to be important. Below the gravel floor of a smokehouse at the eastern end of the flat we found some animal bones and a few shells at a depth of 2 feet, but the gravelly soil outside was almost sterile. In the next cove to the east there was a camp used by the 'An^- akhitan from Whitewater Bay for smoking fish. At present there are four houses standing on both sides of a small stream. Test pits west of the brook uncovered only animal bones, fire-cracked rocks, and tin cans under the turf. A hole in the smokehouse east of the. Please note that these images are extract
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