Eskimo Notes July 10 Point Barrow, Alaska but there is quite an admixture of metal items, for the diggings are all post-contact. It is conjectured that half a mile or more of the point has washed into the ocean in the past hundred of years, destroying the accumulated trash heaps of the early Eskimo, for they as whole hunters always had their village close to the shore. The old village of Nunuk at the point was occupied as late as 1930 or so. Traces of a sod hut remain, besides the older dwellings and meat storage lockers dug into the ground. There were apparently wooden houses there in the last stages of the use of the site but these have since been dismantled or burned. At the beginning of the spit which runs out as Point Barrow, enclosing Elson Lagoon the Eskimos have set up their summer duck camp. Return migration of male and non- breeding eiders is already in progress and hunting is fairly good. The tent village is strategically located, for the ducks cross the spit there, having followed the shore of the lagoon, and continue along the Ocean in their north-westward movement. So it is here, in addition to Barrow Village, that the modern middens are being laid