Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for Z 45210[.1-5]: '5 pieces worked bone (various).'
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)
Fragment of carved baleen, triangular-shaped with flat cross-section, rounded tip and smooth outer edges; broken at wider end. Some irregular scratches and light-brown coloration throughout the surface.
Event Date 23/9/2024
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones