Description (Labels & Markings)
Written on object "Baffin land 1937. Head of Coutts Inlet outside Hut 2.
Event Date
Author: Clare McKenna

Description (Physical description)
Wood spear thrower
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Found at head of Coutts Inlet, outside Hut 2. 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)
Atlatl or spear thrower of wood. It has a long, flat shaft with a deep, rectangular shaped groove in the centre for holding spears or darts in one place, with a small prong inserted through the closed end; the other end is open. The open end has a small round groove on one side for the thumb and a long cut-out with rounded end for the finger hold. The closed end is thicker and angled downwards, ending in a round point, possibly in the shape of a beaked animal.
Event Date 12/9/2024
Author: Clare McKenna