Description (Labels & Markings)
Paper label attached to object reading in pencil: 'BAFFIN LD. DUART BAY. MODERN HUT'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Context (Field collection)
Modern hut. Excavated in late August or early September 1937 by Thomas Lethbridge during the 1937 Cambridge Expedition to North West Greenland and the Canadian Arctic, led by James Mann Wordie. See the University Library for excavation notebook (MS Add.9258/3).
Event Date 8/1937
Author: maa

Context (References)
Lethbridge, T.C. (1938). ‘Appendix II: Eskimo Archaeology’ in J.M. Wordie, et al. ‘An Expedition to North West Greenland and the Canadian Arctic in 1937’. The Geographical Journal, vol. 92(5). pp 385-418.
Event Date 1938
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Context (References)
Lethbridge, T.C. (1939) ‘Archaeological Data from the Canadian Arctic’, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 69(2), pp. 187–233.
Event Date 1939
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Description (Physical description)
Scratched baleen strip.
Event Date 5/2/2001
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
One oblong flat strip of baleen, roughly rectangular in shape, with transverse short incisions on parts of one side. Dark brown surface coloration.
Event Date 5/9/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung