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)
Slate point.
Event Date 1950
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
This record originally said this was a slate point. The slate point is marked A. The object marked G is bone. It has a dot pattern on the curved upper surface. The under side is flat. This object resembles a broken carving of a figure.
Event Date 23/1/2001
Author: Zahni Blumenthal

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)
Incomplete figurine carved from ivory, depicting a swimming bird, the head and neck broken off and missing; possibly used as a gaming piece for tingmiujang. Body has a domed form with a flat base, the curved upper surface decorated with a pattern of finely incised dots consisting of a central oval, open at one end, from which radiate ten straight lines of dots, arranged symmetrically on either side; five groups of finely incised dots are arranged evenly along one edge.
Event Date 20/8/2024
Author: Zahni Blumenthal