Description (Physical description)
Worked tool.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Worked bone modified for hafting.'
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)
The object appears to be a knife handle.
Event Date 5/2/2001
Author: Clare McKenna

Description (Physical description)
Piece of bone worked into a knife handle. It is rectangular with rectangular cross-section and a flat butt end; it widens on both sides to accommodate a blade slit, with a small raised bulb on one side for finger rest.
Event Date 9/9/2024
Author: Clare McKenna