Description (Physical description)
Charred handle; worked.
Event Date
Author: maa

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)
May be a knife handle.
Event Date 5/2/2001
Author: Clare McKenna

Description (Physical description)
A burnt piece of wood, likely worked into a handle. It has a rectangular shaped shaft, widening into an oval shape at the butt end, with a large shoulder for finger rest at one side.
Event Date 12/9/2024
Author: Clare McKenna