The larger or Russian Diomede has two villages, each of which is larger than the one on the smaller island. There are also said to be some remains in a broad depression on the eastern side of the island, while skeletal remains are reported by the natives to exist among the rocks on the top. This island is in need of thorough attention. Its people are reputed to be skilled ivory workers. They come yearly to Nome, where they were visited and seen at their work by the writer. They bring each year some fossil ivory, said to come mainly from the Asiatic coast, and among this are occasionally articles of much interest. Ruins of Eskimo villages are also present along the coasts of the Chukchee Peninsula, both those facing the Bering Sea and those along the Arctic. Very little is definitely known or can be found from the American Eskimo about these ruins, and some of them may not be Eskimo. Nelson in his book (p. 265) reports briefly on a few about Cape Wankarem. Interesting objects of the fossil ivory culture are said to occur in these old sites as far west as the Kolyma, but nothing is certain except that there are ruins, that a good number of them are probably Eskimo, and that fossil ivory, both worked (walrus) and unworked (mammoth), comes from these coasts. A noteworthy report is that of a large native cemetery on the Bering Sea side, with hundreds of burials in rough stone-slab graves. Information of this was given me by Joe Bernard, well known in connection with Bering Sea explorations, who had seen the site in person. [Illustration: FIGURE 27.--Eskimo villages and sites, St. Lawrence Island, the Diomedes, and the eastern Asiatic coast] 211. _Gambell_ (_or Chibukuk_).--Old Eskimo settlement on the northwest cape of St. Lawrence Island. United States National Museum expedition, 1912, by Riley D. Moore; anthropometric data; important collections. 212. Small sites, north bay, St. Lawrence Island, indicated on 1849 Russian map (q. v.). 213. _Savonga._--A small modern Eskimo village. A. H., 1926; some collections. 214. Ruins of an old site 4 miles northeast of Savonga. Important archeologically. 215. _Kukuliak._--Dead village. 216. Former summer site. Given on the 1849 Russian map. [Illustration: FIGURE 28.--The Bering Strait Islands] 217. Important old site with large accumulations on one of the two Punuk Islands. Explored 1928 by Collins; collections. 218. _Kialegak._--Dead village. Important archeologically. Partly explored by Collins, 1928; collections. 219. _Chitnak._--One of the dead villages of 1879. (Nelson, Hooper.) 220. _Puguviliak._--One of the dead villages of 1879. (Nelson, Hooper.) 221. Old site; no details available. 222. Living small village on the smaller (American) Diomede Island. Some old accumulations. A. H., 1926, collections; some excavations same year by D. Jenness.