Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Fragment of stone bowl?'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Labels & Markings)
Mark in black ink: ' CARY ISLANDS HUT 1'
Event Date
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones

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.
Event Date 1939
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones

Description (Physical description)
The object is actually complete, not fragmentary, and resembles objects previously classified as toy lamps.
Event Date 14/3/2001
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Carved stone, possibly a miniature qulliq (lamp). Semicircular, notched edge, and flat base. Deterioration in the interior surface, possibly due to use. Dark-brown surface coloration.
Event Date 20/9/2024
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones