Case
Study 21SL21
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The Bois Forte site, 21SL21, at Chief Wooden
Frogs Island is documented through several
photographs, historic maps, and limited archeological
study. This site, along with sites in Moose
Bay, Crane Lake, and elsewhere across the
park provide a highly significant and important
resource for understanding of Bois Forte settlement
and village structure in a traditionally occupied
territory very late in the historic era. |
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Numerous structures on the eastern portion
of Chief Wooden Frogs Island, 1913.
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Photographs
This is the earliest known view
of site 21SL21(above right). The site was
not occupied at the time, although the frameworks
of wigwams, tipis, and a “gable-style”
house, a single log house, and other structures
are clearly visible. This photograph is
very important as it provides the best,
relatively early image of a Bois Forte settlement
that can be clearly associated with a known
site location in the park.
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Abandoned log house on the eastern portion
of Chief Wooden Frogs Island, 1947.
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Historic Maps
The 1926-1928 Rainy Lake Reference Map, Sheet
43 (at left) depicts five structures at 21SL21.
The site designation label and circle highlighting
the five structures are added. All of these
structures correlate with the positively identified
or “probable“ structures visible
on the 1927 aerial photograph
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Structures depicted on International Joint
Commission Map, 1928
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Archeological Study
Reconnaissance inventory and limited mapping
were completed at the site in 1996. Using
several circa 1947 photographs of deteriorating
log houses at the site as a guide, certain
house features were relocated. The archeological
remnants of three of these structures were
located with certainty, and the suggestion
of a fourth was tentatively identified.
The three features were mapped, along with
associated artifact scatters and other features.
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Feature 2 of site 21SL21, shown above
in the site map and here in detail,
correlates with the log house shown
in the photo (to right).
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Abandoned log house on the eastern
portion of Chief Wooden Frogs Island,
1947.
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