Abstract

This paper presents some results of the 1998 and 1999 fieldworks of PETRARQ, a multidisciplinary research project on Quebec rock art sites. It deals with a newly pictograph site located in Cree territory, one of the biggest rock art sites in Eastern Subarctic. Considering its archaeological and iconographic components, as well as the stories that have been told about it by Cree elders, this site should belong to a larger Algonquian ideological sphere which has covered a huge area within the Canadian Shield in the past. Moreover its toponymic reference, 'Kaapehpeshapischinikanuuch', reveals that it might have been part of the Algonquian sacred landscape for many centuries.