Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label affixed by string: 'CAREY ISLANDS ISBJORN ISLAND HUT II'
Event Date
Author: Dominique Devadason

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Bone sledge runner.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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 8/1937
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: Dominique Devadason

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: Dominique Devadason

Description (Physical description)
There are six holes drilled through it, five have wood or bone pegs in.
Event Date 14/3/2001
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Sledge runner made of whale bone. Elongated rectangular form with a plano-convex cross-section, the body has filleted edges transitioning from flat side to a rounded side. One end has a flat edge; six drill holes, five of which are filled with a fibrous material, interspersed irregularly across bode; the other end tapers to a broken point. Discoloured brown patina with pitting throughout, and material loss at the broken tip.
Event Date 17/9/2024
Author: Dominique Devadason