Accession No

Z 45224 A


Description

One pick with a slightly curved handle of worked bone, possibly a rib, and an iron nail, slightly bent and with its surface corroded, at one end. Distal end broken off and missing. Areas of black and yellow surface coloration.


Place

Arctic; North America; Canada; Nunavut; Baffin Island; Dexterity Fjord; Duart Bay


Period

Inuit 20th century


Source

Lethbridge, Thomas Charles [excavator and donor]; 1937 Wordie Expedition


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

Z 45224 A


Cultural Affliation


Material

Bone; Metal; Iron


Local Term


Measurements

255mm


Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in black ink reading: '1937. BAFFIN LAND. 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)
Pick with bone handle and iron spike.
Event Date 5/2/2001
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
One pick with a slightly curved handle of worked bone, possibly a rib, and an iron nail, slightly bent and with its surface corroded, at one end. Distal end broken off and missing. Areas of black and yellow surface coloration.
Event Date 9/9/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


FM:26774

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