Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Bone projectile (ivory?)'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
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)
Harpoon socket. There is the slot for the blade, the other has been expanded to ?form the socket but it is ?unfinished.
Event Date 14/3/2001
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Bone harpoon head, unfinished. Square-shaped tip slotted for an end blade and tapering toward the socket area, which misses the socket, and a square-ending spur. Minor irregular scratches on the socket area and dark patina at the tip.
Event Date 23/9/2024
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones