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Two New Cape Dorset Sites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Douglas Leechman
Douglas Leechman*
Affiliation:
National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
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Two new sites of the Cape Dorset Eskimo culture were discovered, and partially excavated, by the author in 1935 and 1936. Both of them lie on the south side of Hudson Strait: one, examined in 1935, is on the south side of McLelan Strait, a narrow channel which divides Killinek Island from the northern tip of the Labrador, and contained both modern and Cape Dorset material; the other, which was examined in 1936, is on Nuvuk, an island or a group of islands, lying about thirty miles south-west of Cape Wolstenholme, at the west end of Hudson Strait, and contained only Cape Dorset material, with the exception of some quite obviously modern objects lying on the surface.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , April 1943 , pp. 363 - 375
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1943

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