Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for Z 45071 A-B: '3 worked bone fragments. (a) whale bone plaques.'
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang

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 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: Jodi Zhang

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: Jodi Zhang

Description (Physical description)
Two roughly rectangular thin pieces of bone, with one hole pierced in one corner and four holes pierced along the width of one side.
Event Date 14/3/2001
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Two thin curved pieces of worked whale bone. Both are roughly rectangular in shape, with one hole pierced in one corner and four holes pierced along the width of opposite side.
Event Date 9/9/2024
Author: Jodi Zhang