Description (Labels & Markings)
Object marked 'ELLESMERE LAND 1937/ TURNSTONE BEACH/ HUT 1. Z 45074 B' in black ink.
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Author: Jodi Zhang

Description (Physical description)
Pierced for suspension
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Tooth'.
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang

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 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. 199, Fig. 7, No.7.
Event Date 1939
Author: Jodi Zhang

Context (Analysis)
According to Lethbridge (1939, pp.198), this object 'might have been in use at a very recent date.'
Event Date 10/9/2024
Author: Jodi Zhang

Description (Physical description)
Ivory pendant in form of a seal. Narrowed head; two incised curves representing front flippers; pierced at bottom.
Event Date 10/9/2024
Author: Jodi Zhang