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

Description (Physical description)
Two toggles, one with cord.
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)
Two wooden toggles, one with remains of a partly spliced rope knotted around it. Each toggle with one flat and one convex side, with one wide transverse groove across the convex sides in which one toggle still holds a knotted, left-laid rope twisted of three bigger twisted strands which each consist of two smaller left-laid strands. Both ends of the toggles rounded with one showing a circular hole with a narrower slot from hole to tip.
Event Date 10/9/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung