Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for Z 45211[.1-2]: '2 long pointed pieces [of] bone (curved).'
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.
Event Date 1939
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones

Description (Physical description)
A worked curved slender piece of bone, not unlike a long curved needle, complete.
Event Date 14/3/2001
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
A worked antler splinter, possibly a blubber fork. Slightly curved, following the natural shape of the antler, with a pointed tip, shaft with circular cross-section and rounded handle with tapered shoulders. A few irregular scratches throughout the surface; dark-brown surface coloration.
Event Date 24/9/2024
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones