Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Bone scoop'
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)
One long piece of bone, one end has been worked to make a scoop and the other end has been worked to form a handle.
Event Date 14/3/2001
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Antler scoop knife. Curvilinear, following the natural shape of the antler. Rectangular-shaped handle with rounded edges and a hook terminal. The other end of the handle terminates in squared shoulders from which the socket, shaped as a scoop extends and finishes in a round edge. Delamination and dark patina on one side. Dark-brown surface coloration.
Event Date 20/9/2024
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones