Description

This stone projectile point was found at Fort Albany, a historic Hudson’s Bay trading post in James Bay. It is triangular, was knapped from a larger piece of chert and was recovered from House #1 at Fort Albany. While the point is likely Indigenous-crafted and used, it was recovered from a residential space that would have housed Hudson’s Bay Company staff but was also used for the processing of fish and small game. projectile point is representative of the dynamic cross-cultural exchange and relationships of interdependency that emerged during the era of the European fur trade in Canada between European settlers and local Indigenous communities.