Regions: Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut
Tags: mining, social sciences, archaeology, oral history, European contact, expedition
| Principal Investigator: | Fitzhugh, William (4) |
| Licence Number: | 11052 |
| Organization: | Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution |
| Licensed Year(s): |
1993
1992
1991
1990
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| Issued: | Jan 01, 1991 |
| Project Team: | 16 Assistants/Students; R. Auger - co-investigator; |
Objective(s): Surveys and test excavations of Martin Frobisher sites and mines; surveys of outer Frobisher Bay region for Inuit and other European sites; excavation of Inuit houses of the pre-, Frobisher, and post-Frobisher period for contact and acculturation studies; climate and environmental relationships of Neoeskimo culture; regional and cultural patterning setting Frobisher finds into context with data from Labrador-Ungava, S. Baffin, Cumberland Sound and other Eastern Arctic regions; community involvement in archeology, oral history and museum studies; Inuit oral history of Frobisher and CF Hall eras.
Project Description: The Research project, begun in 1990, will survey the Frobisher sites at Kodlunarn Island, explore Frobisher's mines and other possible sites and study Inuit sites dating from before, during and after the Frobisher contact period.
