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• Language: English
• Subjects: Cape Dorset; Foxe Basin; Igloolik; Arctic; eskimo*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.558.2406; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic3-2-108.pdf

these sites he visited and described from personal observations; for others he had to rely on Eskimo information and Parry’s descriptions (1824). In 1939 Rowley (1940) obtained over 1500 specimens from a Cape Dorset site on Abverdjar Island near Igloolik, but the only signs of dwellings were three or four scarcely visible hollows. In 1949 Rowley excavated some middens on Igloolik Island. In 1938-40 my wife and I were in the Foxe Basin area, and in 1949 I returned to the same region with an expedition sent out by the Geo-graphical Bureau of the Department of Mines and Resources. Archaeo-logical work was not the main purpose of either expedition but, on the first, houses at three separate sites were excavated and, on the second, three previously unrecorded groups of ruins were found. The specimens from the first expedition, which include both Cape Dorset and Thule types, have not yet been studied in detail, and are stored a t the Cambiidge University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.