xv, 271 pages : 29 cm, Report on the archaeological evidence of the occupation of Kodlunarn Island, off the southern coast of Baffin Island, Northwest Territories, by Martin Frobisher's expeditions from England in 1576-1578, Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-267) and index, Introduction / William W. Fitzhugh -- History. 1. Exploration History of Frobisher Bay / William W. Fitzhugh, Dosia Laeyendecker and Donald D. Hogarth. A Brief Narrative of the Frobisher Voyages / William W. Fitzhugh and Dosia Laeyendecker. The Ships' Company in the Frobisher Voyages / Donald D. Hogarth. Exploration after Frobisher / William W. Fitzhugh. 2. Frobisher Miksanut: Inuit Accounts of the Frobisher Voyages / Susan Rowley. 3. The Frobisher Relics: A Museum History / Wilcomb E. Washburn. 4. History of Research on the Smithsonian Bloom / Jacqueline S. Olin -- Field Studies. 5. Archeology of Kodlunarn Island / William W. Fitzhugh. 6. Field Surveys in Outer Frobisher Bay / William W. Fitzhugh. 7. Mining and Metallurgy of the Frobisher Ores / Donald D. Hogarth. 8. Sixteenth-Century Ceramics from Kodlunarn Island / Reginald Auger -- Analysis. 9. Wood and Charcoal Remains from Kodlunarn Island / Dosia Laeyendecker. 10. Carbon-14 Dating of Iron Blooms from Kodlunarn Island / Garmon Harbottle, Richard G. Cresswell and Raymond W. Stoenner. 11. Metallurgical Study of an Iron Bloom and Associated Finds from Kodlunarn Island / Henry Unglik. 12. Metallurgical Study of Small Iron Finds / Michael L. Wayman and Robert M. Ehrenreich. 13. An Evaluation of the Frobisher Iron Blooms: A Cautionary Tale / Robert M. Ehrenreich -- Taking Stock. 14. Questions remain / William W. Fitzhugh -- App. 1. Personnel, ship assignments, and duties in the three voyages of Martin Frobisher -- App. 2. Summary of ships and personnel of the three voyages of Martin Frobisher -- App. 3. 1981 Frobisher catalog of artifacts -- App. 4. 1981 Frobisher sample list

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edited by William W. Fitzhugh and Jacqueline S. Olin; with contributions by Reginald Auger et al

Smithsonian Books

Washington, D.C, District of Columbia, 1992

United States, United States of America

1, 1993

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-267) and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-267) and index.
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The three expeditions (1576-1578) of English explorer Martin Frobisher were among the most ambitious and best documented of the early period of British colonial expansion. Sailing into the Canadian Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage to the Orient, Frobisher established the first, albeit transient, English settlement in the New World, bringing back to Europe not the route to Cathay but news of his encounters with Inuit peoples and tons of what he vainly hoped was gold ore. Archeology of the Frobisher Voyages draws from the material remains of the Frobisher site (houses, mines, workshops, and ship ways) and of local contemporary Inuit sites and Inuit oral history the fullest account yet available of this earliest New World settlement. The contributors are archeologists, historians, and ethnographers who discuss the background and history of the Frobisher voyages and previous investigations of the site, particularly that of Charles Francis Hall, an American explorer who in 1861 was led by Inuit legend to camp on Kodlunarn or "white man's" island, off the southern coast of Baffin Island. Examining artifacts collected by Hall as well as new evidence gathered in three Smithsonian Institution research trips, the contributors reassess the structures and activities of Frobisher's men and the Inuit with whom they traded and fought. One artifact - a lump of iron yielding a problematic carbon-14 date two centuries before Frobisher landed - was collected by Charles Francis Hall and given to the Smithsonian in the nineteenth century. Three more of these artifacts were collected at Kodlunarn in the 1981 research trip, and their origins remain a mystery.

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