Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Worked bone object'.

Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Object marked 'ELLESMERE/ TURNSTONE BEACH/ HUT 5. Z 45080 A' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang

Context (Field collection)
Hut 5. 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. 201, Fig. 9, No. 4.
Event Date 1939
Author: Jodi Zhang

Description (Physical description)
Harpoon socket broken at the socket end.
Event Date 14/3/2001
Author: Jodi Zhang

Description (Physical description)
Harpoon head made of ivory. Half of tip broken off and missing; barbless blade; one central line hole; lashing slots on either side; open socket with one side spur.
Event Date 9/9/2024
Author: Jodi Zhang