A RCTIC CIRCULA NO. I Notes on a trip in l6-foot ... - The Arctic Circle

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The rather high ratio of Dorset to Thule artifacts in the collectione
made by dt.A.nglure is general support for the dating of the
petrogtyphs. The absence of Dorset tools in the small artifact eample
froin Cikertaaluk Island itself is likely forhritous. A high ratio of
Dorset to Thule artifacts was also noted during a survey that visited
Sugluk, Ivugivik, and rv, ansel Island in L957, 1958, and 1959 (Taylort
1958, 1959, 1960), The samples of Ungava artifacts that came to the
Natioaal viugeurn between tJre wars show a similar ratio. This is not
surprising since Dorset culture Eskimoe occupied the Ungava coagt
for a much longer tirne than their Thule culhrre successor6.
The site s
Tuperpvilajllak. This site, roughly 8 miles southeasterly frorn
tbe \4 akeharn Bay settlernent, i; on the n::i-Land n"crth sh.ore of Joy
Bay. Near tJre pregent surnrTrer camp stand some ? semi-subterranean
house ruins. DrAnglure saw no whalebone, did not recall eeeing eatranee
passages to the houses, and guessed the elevation of the site to be 20
metres above present aea level. This suggests a Dorset eite; the artifact
sample described below confirms that suggestion for all the specimens
are llorset types, none are Thule, and only a few have parallels
in pre-Dorset sites, A. rnuliiple sidenotched ground slate end blade
provides a weak hint of an early Dorset occupation, but the low frequency
of ground slate in this srnall sample does not support i:!ri.,s. The finegrained
black quartzite, the black cherty quartzite rnaterialr tJre triangular,
stemmed, and sidenotched chipped end blade forms, and the two
end scraper forms recall the Dorset sarnple from the Imaha siter about
l25 miles to the southeast in Fayne Bay (Laughlin and Taylor' 1960).
C,kiivik I, There were four main sites on Ckiivik Island, just
east of Tffifrkadlak. The positions of these sites given in the text
below corne from a quick sketch prepared by drAnglure prior to his
deparhrre for France. A comparison of this sketch vrith tlre 1950
edition of the Topographical Surveyts eight mile to one inch sheet, Vr akeham
Bay N.lv. 60 l7Z, suggests that drAnglurers directions are 90 degrees too
far to the east. Okiivik IV may be on tJre nortJr side of Tuttle Point at the
southeastern corner of the island with Ckiivik I at the west end of the