Object

Accession No

Z 46706.92

Description

One piece of worked horn, roughly circular in cross-section, tapering towards a sharpened pointed tip. Areas of brown surface coloration and longitudinal cracks.

Place

Arctic; North America; Canada; Nunavut; Foxe Basin; Melville Peninsula; Avvajja [Abverdjar]

Period

Dorset

Source

Rowley, Graham Westbrook [excavator and donor]; Innuksuk, Aipiluk [excavator]

Department

Arch

Reference Numbers

Z 46706.92; 868 [Excavation no.]

Cultural Affliation

Material

Horn

Local Term

Measurements

53mm

Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in black ink reading: '868.'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Description (Physical description)
Unidentified piece of bone
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Excavated by Graham Rowley and Aipiluk Innuksuk, June to August 1939. See archive for notebooks, map and correspondence (XA/1/8, XA/1/34–XA/1/36, and XA/1/40).
Event Date 1939
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Context (References)
Rowley, G. (1940). ‘The Dorset culture of the eastern Arctic’. American Anthropologist, vol. 42(3). pp 490-499.
Event Date 1940
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Context (References)
Rowley, G. (2007). Cold Comfort: My Love Affair with the Arctic. 2nd edition. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Event Date 2007
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Description (Physical description)
One piece of worked horn, roughly circular in cross-section, tapering towards a sharpened pointed tip. Areas of brown surface coloration and longitudinal cracks.
Event Date 28/8/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

FM:26337