Two large living villages, with old sites and inhumed (natural) burials
in their vicinity, and with some old remains between them. Barrow is
the most important present mixed settlement and center of civilization
in the Arctic. Besides the school, it contains a mission hospital and
recently a meteorological observatory and wireless station. The tundras
to the east of the village for about 1½ miles show patches of burials,
particularly in the more distant parts of this region on the elevations
to both sides of a small stream.
Much archeological work remains to be done about Barrow, particularly
in the remainder of the old "igloos." East of Point Barrow the
population is very sparse and no ruins of any note or settlements
are reported before those of the Barter Island and the mouth of the
Colville River.