Accession No

Z 45108 A


Description

Iron arrow or harpoon head. It has a barbed head with rounded tip, shaft that expands towards the butt end with round perforation at cross-section to the head, and a drilled socket hole at the butt end. It possibly terminates in a pair of birfurcated spurs, of which one remains.


Place

Arctic; North America; Canada; Nunavut; Baffin Island; Omega Bay


Period

?Inuit ?19th century ?20th century?


Source

Lethbridge, Thomas Charles [excavator and donor]; 1937 Wordie Expedition


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

Z 45108 A


Cultural Affliation


Material

Metal; Iron


Local Term


Measurements

65mm


Events

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Metal Arrowhead'
Event Date
Author: Clare McKenna


Context (Field collection)
Hut 4. Excavated in 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 9/1937
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: Clare McKenna


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: Clare McKenna


Description (Physical description)
Barbed and tanged iron arrowhead with holed drilled through the tang.
Event Date 5/2/2001
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Iron arrow or harpoon head. It has a barbed head with rounded tip, shaft that expands towards the butt end with round perforation at cross-section to the head, and a drilled socket hole at the butt end. It possibly terminates in a pair of birfurcated spurs, of which one remains.
Event Date 6/9/2024
Author: Clare McKenna


FM:26918

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