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

• Published in: American Antiquity
• Main Author: Manning, T. H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1946
• Subjects: Museology; Archeology; Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous); History; Hudson Bay; Hudson; Belcher; Belcher Islands; Ottawa Islands; Cape Dufferin; Kovik Bay; Mosquito Bay; eskimo*; Thule culture
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/275565; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0002731600029231

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.