Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in black ink reading: '1937. BAFFIN LAND. DUART BAY. MODERN HUT'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Description (Physical description)
Bone strip with 4 holes.
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)
Rounded one end, with one large hole pierced through. The other end squared off, with three holes pierced through. ?Part of pick - cf. Z 45224 A.
Event Date 5/2/2001
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Description (Physical description)
One oblong piece of worked bone. One end wedge-shaped with a truncated squared tip, rectangular in cross-section, and one transversely drilled circular hole; two further smaller circular holes, now clogged, along the shaft. Beyond that, the shaft has bevelled sides, making it roughly oval in cross-section, up to a slightly wider end with rounded tip and another transversely drilled circular hole. Areas of brown and yellow surface coloration.
Event Date 10/9/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung