Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for Z 45102[.1-2]: '2 wooden dolls.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Hut 4. 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

Description (Physical description)
T.C. Lethbridge (1939): 'A headless wooden doll with pronounced male characteristics.'
Event Date 1939
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)
One larger [than Z 45102.2] and cruder with only part of torso and legs.
Event Date 14/3/2001
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Lower section of an anthropomorphic male figurine or doll. Figure starts at the shoulders, with wide, arm-less torso tapering to an indented waist band, the front has a slight protrusion of the pectorals, and the back is grooved along the spine; the pubic triangle has a phallic protrusion; two distinct legs that taper to a point. No head, which may be missing or never included. Dark brown colouring, with pitted grooves throughout, and material loss on the legs.
Event Date 17/9/2024
Author: Dominique Devadason

Context (Analysis)
Accession Register gave the hut number for Z 45102[.1-2] tentatively as Hut V, however the Lethbridge publication makes it clear that this figure is from Hut 4.
Event Date 17/9/2024
Author: Dominique Devadason