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1st	Stratum (from the top):	215 animal bones, 1 piece of soapstone, 7 specimens; turf stratum.
2nd	Stratum (from the top)„:	1390 animal bones, 5 pieces of soapstone, 1 piece of jade, some wood, 53 specimens.
3rd	Stratum (from the top)„:	350 animal bones, 2 pieces of jade, 1 piece of flint, some baleen and wood, 22 specimens.
4th	Stratum (from the top)„:	160 animal bones, densely packed with baleen, pieces of wood, Cassiope, quills, ashes, 7 specimens.
5th	Stratum (from the top)„:	65 animal bones, quantities of baleen, much wood, 8 specimens.
6th	Stratum (from the top)„:	75 animal bones, large quantity of baleen, wood, 22 specimens, including a large number of baleen objects.
7th	Stratum (from the top)„:	115 animal bones, many baleens and pieces of wood, 12 specimens; typical midden stratum.
8th	Stratum (from the top)„:	175 animal bones, quantity of baleens, ashes; 28 specimens.
9th	Stratum (from the top)„:	225 animal bones, quantity of baleens, some wood, ashes, large piece of slag, piece of soapstone, 23 specimens.
10th	Stratum (from the top)„:	many baleens, 1 specimen; bottom reached.

In no other place in the Naujan settlement does there seem to have been formed such a deep refuse heap as here; sample excavations were made in front of some of the house entrances; there was refuse everywhere, but not in thicker layers than 20–30 cm. It thus seems that the house group IV–VII is the one that has been inhabited longest; it must have taken a very considerable time for a refuse heap of these dimensions to be formed.

Specimen-Types of the Naujan Find.

Hunting Implements.

Harpoon heads.

In the settlement find at Naujan there are, of harpoon heads for seal and walrus hunting, 53 in all (several of them being broken pieces however), in addition to which there are 14 unfinished heads, as well as two brought by the Eskimos who said that they had found