. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. Scientific expeditions. 46 Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 This one was much larger and stronger. Near, too, was found an old whittling knife and a short-bladed knife much rusted. There was a grassy mound of earth nearby, but we could find no further trace of instruments haying been left there. At the head of the sand spit which forms Cape Kellett, is a large deserted village of thirty or more houses. They seem to have been built of sod around a frame work of whale bones. Some of the houses are now crumbling away owing to the inroad of th
. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. Scientific expeditions. 46 Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 This one was much larger and stronger. Near, too, was found an old whittling knife and a short-bladed knife much rusted. There was a grassy mound of earth nearby, but we could find no further trace of instruments haying been left there. At the head of the sand spit which forms Cape Kellett, is a large deserted village of thirty or more houses. They seem to have been built of sod around a frame work of whale bones. Some of the houses are now crumbling away owing to the inroad of the. sea, but the majority of them are still intact, but very much overgrown with moss and tundra. The earth nearby is very much stained with whale or seal oil, and in the heat of summer there is still an odor of decaying animal matter to be noticed in the vicinity. In winter this attracts a number of foxes that dig in the snow and throw up yellow stained turf, but one cannot see that they get anything to eat for their pains. Because of having to do other work connected with the boats of the Expedition, I was unable to do any digging around here; but there is no doubt that the site is a rich field for anthropologists. "During the course of the expedition I travelled almost the complete circumference of Banks island, crossed overland over the southern section. (Photo by G. H. Wilkins) Fig. 6. View of the south coast of Banks island, near Cape Lambton and hunted over the country for many miles inland from nearly all parts of the coast. The ruined village at Cape Kellett was the only one seen, but one could scarcely go twenty-five miles in any direction without seeing a tent ring or some chips of drift wood, showing that at some time or other it had been a hunting ground of some human ; In reading this account we are at once struck by the fact that it was at Cape Kellett that the western natives established a settlement, not at Nelson head; further that there was this
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