Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Bone knife handle.'
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. 4.11
Event Date 1939
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones

Description (Physical description)
Knife handle with a perforation at one end, the slot for the blade is curved around the length of the socket.
Event Date 14/3/2001
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Antler knife handle with curved socket for blade, which is now missing. Straight handle with rounded edges, with a drilled hole and slightly tapered at the butt end. The handle terminates with squared shoulders from which the socket extends, with a flat upper section and curved slot around the length of the socket to insert a blade. There are short, horizontal lines on one of the handle edges, and irregular linear scratches throughout the surface; dark-brown surface coloration.
Event Date 19/9/2024
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones