A Flint Site in Northernmost Manitoba

• Published in: American Antiquity
• Main Author: Giddings, J. L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1956
• Subjects: Museology; Archeology; Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous); History; Hudson Bay; Greenland; Hudson; Flint; North Knife River; Churchill; Dorset culture; eskimo*; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/277197; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0002731600024392

The Churchill area of Manitoba is a meeting place of Eskimos and Chipewyans. It is also the boundary of the northern forest and the barren grounds. My field trip in the summer of 1953 to this part of the western margin of Hudson Bay had to do with both of these facts, for I intended to collect sampl...