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The work of the geological pa.rty was greatly assisted
by data collected by other members of "Operation Hazen" and
also by other agencies working in the area, notably the O.I.C.
of the joint weather station at Alert, the crew of the R.C ,A,F,
Dakota aircraft, the officer commanding U,S.C.G.C. Atka,
and Dr. Terris Moore. -­
Archaeological work in Ungava and Mansel Island. By W,E. Taylor
Durinc the 1958 field season, Mr. Charles A. Martijn,
my wife, and I carried out archaeological field work for the Human
History Branch of the National Museum of Canada. This work
followed a reconnaissance survey we had made in northern
Ungava the preceding ye1",r (see Arctic Circular, Vol. 10, No.2,
pp. 25-7).
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The pa rty left Ottawa on July and travelled in the
C.G.S. Montcalm to Frobisher Bay and then in the M. V •
Rupertsland to Sugluk. While a.t Frobisher the Crystal II site,
excavated by Henry B. Collins in 1948, was examined (Ann. Rept.
Nat. Mus. Ca.n. Bull. No, 118, 1950), The M.V. Rupertsland
arrived at Sugluk on July 30 and camp WeS Bet up a.nd work begun
on Sugluk Island the foEowing day. A number of local "Eskimologists"
were hired for the season to participate in the excavations. At the
"dazzling" hour of midnight on August 10. the party sailed by
Peterhead boat for Mansel Island, On the way we saw the
remarkable murre colonies on the Wolstenholme-Digges Island
cliffs at close range, and stopped at Ivugivik to add to the crew two
men who were familiar with Mansel Island. On August 12 the
party landed on the island and set up a camp at the mouth of a
river near the centre of the east coast. On August 31 a Peterhead
boat arrived to carry our crowd back to Ivugivik, but after six
hours of sailing, the Eskimo captain decided to return to Mansel
Island to wait for better weather, The pa:..ty reached the mainland
the following day and camp was set up at "Eeteevianee", a small
cove one mile from Ivugivik. On September 6 we left Ivugivik
and returned to Sueluk Island, remaininp; there until September 27,
when we went back to Sugluk to prepa.re for the trip south. On
October 2 we boarded the C.G,S. Montcalm and on October 4 she
sailed for Churchill. The voyage from Sugluk to Churchill was
completed in the impressive time of fifty hours. A Trans -Air
flight from Churchill to Ottawa on October ., concluded the season.
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