Description (Labels & Markings)
Handle 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)
Ulu with bone handle, iron blade.
Event Date 5/2/2001
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
One ulu with iron cutting blade, sharpened on one side, and iron handle stool as well as a handle made of wood. Flat blade crescent-shaped; handle stool circular in cross-section with flattened rounded distal end which holds the blade on one side with a circular rivet. Small curved handle of dark brown wood.
Event Date 6/9/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung