Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Harpoon head.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Hut 1. 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: Elia Quijano Quinones

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. Fig. 4.14
Event Date 1939
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones

Description (Physical description)
Harpoon socket.
Event Date 14/3/2001
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Toggle, bone harpoon head with single line hole. Tip slotted for an end blade and pierced with a circular fixing hole; tapering blade with central, single line hole; terminating in an closed socket and an end spur that is split. Linear scratches throughout the surfaces and areas of dark-brown and white surface coloration.
Event Date 12/9/2024
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones