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Aboriginal Camp Sites on Isle Royale, Michigan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

George I. Quimby Jr.
George I. Quimby Jr.*
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University of Chicago, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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In a recent article in american antiquity, Dr. Vladimir J. Fewkes described some Woodland pottery from the valley of the lower Red River, north of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Similar sherds from the region of Mille Lacs, Minnesota, are illustrated by Winchell. As pointed out by McKern and Fewkes, pottery resembling the Woodland ware was collected from sites in Kamchatka, Siberia, by Jochelson. There is some possibility that these northern Kamchatka sites date after the tenth or eleventh centuries A.D.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , January 1939 , pp. 215 - 223
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1939

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References

177 Fewkes, Vladimir J., Aboriginal Potsherds from Red River Manitoba. This series, Vol. 3, No. 2, October, 1937.

178 Winchell, N. H., The Aborigines of Minnesota. St. Paul, 1911.

179 McKern, W. C, An Hypothesis for the Asiatic Origin of the Woodland Culture Pattern. This series, Vol. 3, No. 2, October, 1937.

180 Fewkes, V. L., ibid.

181 Jochelson reports Japanese coins of the tenth or eleventh centuries A.D. associated with indigneous materials in the northern Kamchatka sites. In addition to the coins there were other objects such as porcelain indicative of Japanese cultural contact. Jochelson, V. II., Archaeological Investigations in Kamchatka, p. 64, Washington, 1928.

182 Holmes, W. H., Aboriginal Pottery of the Eastern United States. 20th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1903.

183 Catalogue number 897, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan.

184 Jochelson, V. II., ibid., Plate 19-B.

185 From photographs of the Isle Royale Iroquoian pottery, identification was made by Dr. A. C. Parker and Mr. William Ritchie who pointed out its close resemblance to the pottery of the Neutrals and Eries of western New York (January, 1937).

186 Parker, A. C, Erie Indian Village and Burial Site at Ripley, New York, Bulletin 117, New York State Museum, Plates 26 and 29.

187 West, George, Report of the McDonald-Massee Isle Royale Expedition. Vol. 10, No. 1, Bulletin, Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee, 1930.

188 Dustin, Fred, A Summary of the Archaeology of Isle Royale, Michigan. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, Vol. 16, published 1932.

189 Unpublished field notes of C. E. Guthe.

190 A similar range and distribution of hardness resulted from the analysis of a small group of sherds from the Richmond Mills site, Ontario County, New York.

191 Insofar as possible sherds from individual vessels are represented.

192 Artifacts collected by the McDonald-Massee Expedition are not included since they have already been described in the report of that expedition. Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee, Vol. 10, No. 1.

193 This copper knife, the smaller of the two, was found in a pit which was about fifteen inches in diameter at the bottom of the refuse-bearing stratum and extended below this about ten inches. The pit may or may not have extended from the ground surface. Associated with the copper knife were two body sherds, one rim sherd which is of the Iroquoian type, and fragments of unidentifiable burned animal bone.

194 Identification of animal bone by Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan.

195 Identification made in Ethnobotanical Laboratory, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan.

196 Ethno-historical references supplied by Mr. W. Vernon Kinietz, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan.

197 Jesuit Relations, ed. R. G. Thwaites, Vol. 34, p. 223.

198 Ibid., Vol. 50, p. 307.

199 Ibid., Vol. 54, pp. 169–171.

200 Blair, E. H., Indian Tribes of the Upper Mississippi, Vol. I, p. 179.

201 Jesuit Relations, Relation of 1669–70, Vol. 54, pp. 133–135; 193–195.

202 Quotation from George Fox in The Report of the McDonald-Massee Isle Royale Expedition, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee, Vol. 10, No. 1.