A Quebec archeologist has unearthed the ghostly carving of a face left buried on a remote Arctic island inhabited 1,000 years ago by the extinct Dorset culture — the native people who mysteriously vanished from Canada's North after the ancestors of modern-day Inuit arrived in this country. The small, elaborately sculpted "maskette" — possibly worn as an amulet by a shaman serving as a Dorset tribe's guide to the spiritual world — is believed to have been made from walrus ivory and was found on one of the Nuvuk Islands at the northwestern tip of Quebec's Ungava Peninsula. Traces of the long-lost Dorset or "Paleo-Eskimo" people, who are known to have evolved an artistically advanced society despite their harsh Arctic living conditions, are among the most prized discoveries in Canadian archaeology. [...]

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