Accession No
Z 45226 A
Description
Wooden tobacco pipe bowl with plain lip showing a bevelled outer edge and a large circular stem hole in the lower third just above the rounded bottom. Interior blackened.
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 45226 A
Cultural Affliation
Material
Wood
Local Term
Measurements
36mm
Events
Description (Labels & Markings)
Bowl marked in black ink reading: '1937. BAFFIN LAND. DUART BAY. MODERN HUT'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
Description (Physical description)
Wood Pipe Bowl
Event Date
Author: maa
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)
Wooden tobacco pipe bowl with plain lip showing a bevelled outer edge and a large circular stem hole in the lower third just above the rounded bottom. Interior blackened.
Event Date 10/9/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
FM:26778
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