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Ruins of Eskimo Stone Houses on the East Side of Hudson Bay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

T. H. Manning
T. H. Manning*
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Ottawa, Ontario
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Archaeological material obtained from Eskimos on the east side of Hudson Bay has been described by Mathiassen, Quimby, and Jenness, but no systematic excavations have been made in the area. Mathiassen was told by Mr. S. Berthfi of Reveillon Frdres that there were house ruins of turf and stone on the east coast of Hudson Bay at Kovik Bay, Mosquito Bay, and Cape Dufferin, and also on the Ottawa Islands; and by Mr. Perdy of the Hudson's Bay Company that there were house ruins at Cape Wolstenholme and many around Port Harrison. Obviously, Mathiassen concluded that these were regular houses of the Thule type. Quimby6 found only oval and rectangular tent rings on the Belcher Islands, and assumed that the semisubterranean houses characteristic of the Thule culture were lacking.

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American Antiquity , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , January 1946 , pp. 201 - 202
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1946 

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References

1 Diamond Jenness, “An Archaeological Collection from the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay,” Annals of the Carnegie Museum, Vol. 28 (1942) Art. XI, pp. 189–206, Pls. XIV–XXII, 1942.

2 Therkel Mathiassen, Archaeology of the Central Eskimo, Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition, 1921–1924, Vol. 4, Pts. 1, 2, Copenhagen, 1927.

3 Quimby, G. I., “The Manitunik Eskimo Culture of East Hudson's Bay,” American Antiquity, Vol. 6, No. 2 (1940), pp. 148-165.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 Mathiassen, op. cit., Pt. 2, p. 140.

5 Quimby, op. cit.