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

Description (Physical description)
Drilled bone splinter.
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)
Pierced one end, the other end has three smaller holes pierced through. ?Part of pick - cf. Z 45224 A.
Event Date 5/2/2001
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Description (Physical description)
One oblong flat piece of worked bone. One bulky end tapering into a rounded tip with one transversely drilled circular hole with a bevelled edge on one side; from there, the bone curves in a slight S-line with rounded edges towards a rounded end with three transversely drilled small circular holes arranged in a triangle with remains of another perforation at the very tip. Areas of brown and yellow surface coloration.
Event Date 10/9/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung