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The Lamellar Flake Manufacturing Site on Anangula Island in the Aleutians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

William S. Laughlin  and
Gordon H. Marsh
William S. Laughlin
Affiliation:
University of OregonEugene, Oregon. University of British Columbia
Gordon H. Marsh
Affiliation:
University of OregonEugene, Oregon. University of British Columbia
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Anangula is an island 1.6 miles long and .5 mile wide, lying on the north side of Nikolski Bay about 4.5 miles northwest of Nikolski village, Umnak Island, in the eastern Aleutians. The designation of this island on United States Coast and Geodetic Survey charts is Ananiuliak, a transliteration of the Russianized form “Ananyulyakh” of the original Aleut name “Anangulagh” (from which we have subtracted the ending -gh to give “Anangula”). In current Umnak usage this island is called in Aleut “Anagulagh,” and in English “Rabbit Island” from the numerous rabbits there, descendants of two pairs of domestic Belgian hares introduced onto the island in 1936 by one of the Aleuts as food for foxes which have since been removed, when the island became a bird sanctuary. The change in the Aleut form of the name for this island from “Anangulagh” to “Anagulagh” undoubtedly accompanied the shift in the dialect spoken on Umnak subsequent to the first arrival of Russians in the Fox Islands in the early 1750's.

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American Antiquity , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , July 1954 , pp. 27 - 39
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1954

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