The Arnapik site, JlGu-9, is located about two miles east (Fig. 1) of Amulet Creek (61°51′15″N., 79°27′40″W.) on the central east coast of Mansel Island in the northeastern extremity of Hudson Bay. Mansel Island, 36 miles west of the Ungava mainland at its closest point, is a low, generally barren island measuring roughly 60 by 34 miles. Despite its size its maximum elevation is under 500 feet. The island, formed of limestone and limestone gravels, geologically is a member of the Arctic lowlands. The vegetation, arctic grasses, sedges, mosses, lichens, willow and arctic flowers, is extremely sparse for this latitude, a marked contrast to the hardrock terrain of the nearby mainland, but much like such high Arctic locales as Bathurst and Comwallis Islands near 75° north latitude (Polunin 1948: 248).