Context (Related Documents)
Note with Z 45064 A-G reads: 'These seven specimens were part of the priests collection from Abverdjar but from their appearance are obviously different from the rest of the collection and are probably either surface finds or mixed in by mistake by the Eskimo or at the priests house.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Found by Inuit in 1933 whilst they were ‘cutting turf for the walls of their houses and digging mud to shoe the runners of the komatiks’ (Rowley 2007, p. 88), and given to Father Étienne Bazin. Father Bazin gave the collection to Graham Rowley in March 1937. See archive (XA/1/35 and XA/1/39).
Event Date 1933
Author: maa

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

Description (Physical description)
Bone harpoon.
Event Date 1950
Author: maa

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: Zahni Blumenthal

Description (Physical description)
Self-bladed harpoon head made of bone, slightly warped with a curved profile. Small, angular blade with lenticular cross-section; single asymmetrical barb below blade; shank of rectangular cross-section flares slightly towards socket, pierced with single circular line hole at centre; open socket with lashing notch and single asymmetrical spur.
Event Date 20/8/2024
Author: Zahni Blumenthal