Two New Cape Dorset Sites

• Published in: American Antiquity
• Main Author: Leechman, Douglas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1943
• Subjects: Museology; Archeology; Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous); History; Hudson; Hudson Strait; Cape Dorset; McLelan Strait; eskimo*; Nuvuk
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/275868; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0002731600036854

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.