Excavation
The crew encountered the remains of a number of Inuit settlements while in this area. These sites were of particular interest to Paterson, the crew's archaeologist, who headed the excavation of several of them.
Wordie (1935, 302) confirms the sighting of "...some Eskimo graves and the remains of an old Eskimo house..." at Duck Island. Dalgety's 29th June journal entry describes the crew's excavation of a grave in a Duck Island house, which offered many significant finds. Dalgety later describes excavations at Ryder Island.
P.69408.PAT (MAA). Expedition members by a cairn. J.M. Wordie (second from left) and T.G. Longstaff, second from right. South Duck Island, Greenland.
Source: T.T. Paterson, Photographer: M. H. W. Ritchie.
