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Eskimo Stone House Ruins on the East Side of Hudson Bay: A Correction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

T. H. Manning
T. H. Manning*
Affiliation:
Ottawa, Canada
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In 1944 when I was at Port Harrison, I enquired if there were any Eskimo stone house ruins in the region, but the Eskimos knew of none except ”strong“ tent rings. Because of this, and from the reactions of our Eskimo crew to the houses and strong tent rings on the King. George and Marcopeet islands, I concluded1 that if there were any Thule type houses on the mainland they were too old to be easily recognized.

In 1946, I was again working for the Geodetic Service in that area. Through enquiries at Port Harrison, I heard of two groups of ruins, and at three out of our five stops on the Hudson Bay coast, I accidentally stumbled on other groups. Thus, not only are there house ruins on this coast, but they appear to be quite numerous.

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American Antiquity , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , January 1948 , pp. 250 - 251
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1948

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References

1 Manning, T. H., “Ruins of Eskimo Stone Houses on the East Side oi Hudson Bay.” AMERICAN ANTIQUITY, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 201-2, 1946 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Op. cit., pp. 201-2.

3 Op. cit., pp. 201-2.

4 Leechnuui, Douglas, “Two New Cape Dorset Sites, AMERICAN ANTIQOTTY, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 363-75, 1943 Google Scholar.