Description (Physical description)
Harpoon Foreshaft.
Event Date
Author: Clare McKenna

Context (Field collection)
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 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)
Bone object with a chisel tip, a cut-out cavity in the other end and one hole cut from the surface into the cavity.
Event Date 5/2/2001
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Bone tool, possibly a chisel or harpoon foreshaft. One end has a circular cross-section and is shallow, possibly a socket, with two drilled holes above. Two thirds of the object has a cut-out section, creating a long, flat and slanted chisel end, rounded on the obverse side.
Event Date 12/9/2024
Author: Clare McKenna