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

Description (Physical description)
Grooved handle.
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)
Hole drilled through, two grooves from end of handle towards holes.
Event Date 5/2/2001
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Description (Physical description)
One fragment of a wooden handle. Roughly pear-shaped handle with wider truncated end with rounded edge, other end broken off and missing. In the lower third of handle one transversely drilled circular hole with a wider groove towards end of handle on both sides. Surface blackened, probably sooted.
Event Date 10/9/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung