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 fire drill anvil.
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)
One flat fragment of worked wood, possibly part of a knife handle with secondary use as a fire drill anvil. With one truncated squared end in a slight wedge shape, the other end rounded and bulkier. Piece diagonally broken off, showing remains of three circular perforations on broken edge as well as an additional circular hole towards the squared end. Surface sooted all over.
Event Date 10/9/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung