Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in ink on Z 45190[.1-3]: '1937 CARY ISLANDS HUT 2'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for Z 45190[.1-6]: '6 pieces wood, worked, 3 sticks 3 shaped.'
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)
Three pieces of worked wooden points. [.1] is possibly a fan piece or toy rudder; head has a projected blade shape; shaft has a rectangular cross-section; and distal end tapers to a flat point perpendicular to the head. [.2] is possibly a double ended chisel or scraper; ends are taper into perpendicular points; shaft has a plano-convex cross-section. [.3] is possibly a peg or awl; a pointed head with a circular cross-section; and wide tail with material loss. Objects have a discoloured brown patina, with grooves throughout.
Event Date 25/9/2024
Author: Dominique Devadason