Description (Physical description)
Point or awl
Event Date
Author: Clare McKenna

Context (Field collection)
Hut I. Excavated in August 1937 by Thomas Lethbridge during the 1937 Cambridge Expedition to North West Greenland and the Canadian Arctic, led by James Mann Wordie. See MAA photo collection for photographs; see the University Library for excavation notebook and notes (MS Add.9258/3 and MS Add.9777/13/9/4).
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)
Metal spike in a wooden handle. The spike is bound onto the handle with ?gut or ?fibre.
Event Date 5/2/2001
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Thin metal point with a wooden handle, possibly a bow drill shank with bit. The protruding metal point is short and very thin, attached to the wooden shaft with sinew.
Event Date 12/9/2024
Author: Clare McKenna