Artifact analysis

Explanation of artifact numbers

Every artifact has at least four numbers:

• Project code (2, for Earhart Project).
• Expedition number (e.g., 2, for the second expedition). See list of expeditions below.
• Site identifier (V = village; S = Seven Site).
• Chronological identifier (order of entry into catalog: 1, 2, 3 ...)

If the artifact is in several pieces we add a slash number for each piece. The shoe eyelet, for example, is 2-2-G (for grave site)-7/6 (the shoe was the seventh artifact found in the area, of which the eyelet was the sixth fragment found).

Expedition numbers

1. Niku I (1989)
2. Niku II (1991)
3. Niku IIIP (1996)
4. Niku III (1997)
5. Niku IIIIP (1999)
6. Niku IIII (2001)
7. Niku VP (WOF--2003)
8. Niku V (2007)

Selected artifacts

• Sixteen interesting items found on Niku.
• "Help Wanted: Smelling for Gunsmoke."
• "Join the Search."--items you may be able to help locate or identify.
• Niku V: Reports and Analysis.

Expedition	ID Number	Description
Niku I	2-1	a navigator's bookcase
Niku II	2-2-G-7/1-9	parts of a woman's shoe, Cat's Paw repair heel
Niku II	2-2-V-1	Alclad aluminum sheet
Niku IIIP	2-3-V-1	Cables
Niku IIIP	2-3-V-2	Transparent Sheet (plexiglass)
Niku IIII	2-6-S-18	Part of a makeup mirror.
Niku IIII	2-6-S-21F	Tube part?
Niku IIII	2-6-S-32	Part of a straight razor?
Niku IIII	2-6-S-43	Anode plate
Niku IIII	2-6-S-45	Oil can cap (not a knob)
Niku IIII	2-6-S-03a and 2-6-S-03b	little clips, a.k.a gidgies
Niku V	2-8-S-1	Part of a makeup mirror.
		remnants of riveted can