Description (Physical description)
Hollow handle; fragment
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)
A hollow piece of bone worked into handle. The shaft flattens and widens, with a large blade slit cut down its centre. Much of the blade end is missing.
Event Date 12/9/2024
Author: Clare McKenna