Accession No
Z 45228
Description
Two roughly circular trade beads, one of translucent blue glass, the other of turquoise opaque glass.
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 45228
Cultural Affliation
Material
Glass
Local Term
Measurements
100mm
Events
Description (Physical description)
Trade beads.
Event Date
Author: maa
Description (Labels & Markings)
Paper label formerly attached to beads reading in pencil: '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)
One turquoise, one purple/blue.
Event Date 5/2/2001
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
Description (Physical description)
Two roughly circular trade beads, one of translucent blue glass, the other of turquoise opaque glass.
Event Date 9/9/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
FM:26780
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