Description (Labels & Markings)
Object marked '1937 ELLESMERE LAND/ TURNSTONE BEACH/ HUT 8. Z 45085 B' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang

Description (Physical description)
Long wide, with holes.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'worked baleen strip'.
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang

Context (Field collection)
Hut 8. 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 end has been bent over and is now fragile.
Event Date 14/3/2001
Author: Jodi Zhang

Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2024.6105 | Freezing
Event Date 26/11/2024
Author: Kirsty Kernohan

Description (Physical description)
Baleen strip, with a row of drilled holes down the centre. Possibly a sledge runner. Bent at two places; fragile and flaky.
Event Date 6/9/2024
Author: Jodi Zhang

Conservation (Pest Debris Removed)
CON.2024.6019 | Pest Debris Removed
Event Date 6/9/2024
Author: Ayesha Fuentes