Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in black ink: '1937 CARY ISLANDS HUT 2'
Event Date
Author: Dominique Devadason

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for Z 45188[.1-4]: '4 pieces of worked bone.'
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 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)
Worked long bone, possibly a beamer. Shaft (diaphysis) is s-curved, with elliptical groove carved out in the centre with bevelled edges, partially smoothed from use. Discoloured brown patina, with longitudinal pitting and scratches throughout; material loss at one end of the groove.
Event Date 24/9/2024
Author: Dominique Devadason