Description (Physical description)
Bone and wood handled harpoon with metal blades. Bound together with leather thongs. Thongs loop at end.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
House I. Excavated by Graham Rowley in July 1937. See excavation notebook for list and drawings (XA/1/39/4).
Event Date 7/1937
Author: maa

Context (References)
Rowley, G. (2007). Cold Comfort: My Love Affair with the Arctic. 2nd edition. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Event Date 2007
Author: Clare McKenna

Context (Amendments / updates)
This collection was previously entered as from '?Southampton Island' and collected by Graham Rowley in 1936. However, they correspond to those excavated by Rowley in 1937 at the site of Avartoq [Akbahtok], Strathcona Sound, drawings of which are in his excavation notebook (XA/1/39/4). The Place field has been updated accordingly.
Event Date 4/10/2024
Author: Clare McKenna

Description (Physical description)
Composite harpoon or knife. It consists of a flat bone shaft with a curved end, two rivets and blade slits around the tip and down both sides, with part of an iron blade remaining in each. It is tied to the wooden handle with plaited leather or baleen and rivets. The butt end has an oval-shaped terminus with a perforation, filled with a knotted loop of leather, for holding or suspension.
Event Date 8/10/2024
Author: Clare McKenna