Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Bone handle.'
Event Date
Author: maa

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)
Bone handle, now broken, possibly from a knife. Cylindrical bottom end with a socket space; handle tapers toward the opposite end, now broken, with a rebate. Drilled hole in the centre, and short, horizontal lines on one of the handle edges. Delamination and dark patina on the tapering area; dark-brown coloration throughout the surface.
Event Date 23/9/2024
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones