Accession No

Z 45077


Description

Worked whale bone fragment. Roughly rectangular in shape, with four circular perforations in corners; broken off along one short side. Possible traces of incision or lashing on surface.


Place

Arctic; North America; Canada; Nunavut; Ellesmere Island; Buchanan Bay; Turnstone Beach


Period

Inuit


Source

Lethbridge, Thomas Charles [excavator and donor]; 1937 Wordie Expedition


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

Z 45077


Cultural Affliation


Material

Bone


Local Term


Measurements

69mm


Events

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


Context (Field collection)
Hut 3. 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. 198.
Event Date 1939
Author: Jodi Zhang


Description (Physical description)
One piece of bone which has had four holes drilled, the object has broken along one of those holes.
Event Date 14/3/2001
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Worked whale bone fragment. Roughly rectangular in shape, with four circular perforations in corners; broken off along one short side. Possible traces of incision or lashing on surface.
Event Date 9/9/2024
Author: Jodi Zhang


FM:27244

Images (Click to view full size):