P a p e r s NOTES ON LODGE PLANS IN THE LAKE INDICATOR AREA OF SOUTH-CENTRAL QUEBEC*

• Main Author: Edward S. Rogers
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1953
• Subjects: Eastmain; Kidd; The Lodge; Arctic; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.511.8869; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic16-4-219.pdf

ethnographic field work among the Mistassini Cree of south-central Quebec. During the course of this work, we accompanied Alfie Matoush and members of his hunting group to their lands for the winter. The area exploited by this group is near the headwaters of the Eastmain River and just south of Lake Noakokan. Near the southern boundary lies Lake Indicator, which appears to have been used frequently as an early winter base for hunting and trapping. Here several house pits and log cabins were observed and information regarding them obtained from the leader of the hunting group. The purpose of this paper is to place on record data that may some day be of use to those who undertake archaeological investigations in this and other areas within the eastern Subarctic. Furthermore, it seems appropriate to record these data since it is possible to link ethnographic accounts with what may be called archaeological sites (see Drucker 1943, p. 34 and Reichel-Dolmatoff 1961, pp. 229-41). I wish to thank Mr. Kenneth E. Kidd for calling my attention to these two sources and for having commented on the manu-script. Finally, some suggestions can be made regarding changing lodge styles in the area and the factors involved. Before the lodge remains are discussed, a resume of the yearly activities of the Mistassini may be given. In late August or early September the various hunting groups leave their summer encampment at the lower end of Lake Mistassini and move to their hunting grounds. Here a fall camp is erected from which the men make hunting excursions. In October a more