Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Harpoon handle (blade to go inside).'
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. 4.12
Event Date 1939
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones

Description (Physical description)
Knife handle, curved with a knob at the end and a wide socket for the blade running along the half the length of the handle, rather than at the end.
Event Date 14/3/2001
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Ivory knife handle with socket for blade, now missing. The socketed section is trapezoidal shaped; the narrower end is rounded at the edges with long longitudinal slot for blade. Short handle with circular cross-section and hook terminal. Long scar along socketed section and a small crack with missing material above; linear scratches throughout the surfaces and areas of dark-brown surface coloration.
Event Date 16/9/2024
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones