Description (Labels & Markings)
Object marked '1937 ELLESMERE/ TURNSTONE BEACH/ HUT 11. Z 45086' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Barbed point.'

Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Site 11, outside Hut 10. 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. 196, Fig. 6, No. 8.
Event Date 1939
Author: Jodi Zhang

Description (Physical description)
Traces of burning.
Event Date 14/3/2001
Author: Jodi Zhang

Description (Physical description)
Barbed prong from a bird-dart, made of ivory. Triangular shaped pointed tip; one bard on stem; traces of burning on surface.
Event Date 6/9/2024
Author: Jodi Zhang