Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 45118 [A-B]: 'Baleen fragment.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
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 archive for list of objects (XA/1/28) and photo collection for lantern slides and photographs; see the University Library for excavation notebook (MS Add.9258/3).
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)
Description for Z 45118 [A-B]: '3 fragments of baleen, being 2 square, flat pieces and one partly woven object made of strips of baleen. '
Event Date 5/2/2001
Author: Clare McKenna

Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2024.6105 | Freezing
Event Date 26/11/2024
Author: Kirsty Kernohan

Context (Amendments / updates)
Z 45118 [A-B] were found packed with and accessioned alongside Coutts Inlet objects from Baffin Island, but have been identified as Cary Islands as this is written on each object. Therefore the place field has been corrected.
Event Date 12/9/2024
Author: Clare McKenna

Description (Physical description)
Two rectangular strips of baleen. Thin and formed of many layers.
Event Date 12/9/2024
Author: Clare McKenna