Accession No
Z 45087 A
Description
Oval shaped wooden dish or bowl. One side slightly broken off and missing.
Place
Arctic; North America; Canada; Nunavut; Ellesmere Island; Buchanan Bay; Turnstone Beach
Period
?Thule ?Inuit
Source
Lethbridge, Thomas Charles [excavator and donor]; 1937 Wordie Expedition
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
Z 45087 A
Cultural Affliation
Material
Wood
Local Term
Measurements
195mm
Events
Description (Labels & Markings)
Object marked '1937 ELLESMERE/ TURNSTONE BEACH/ HUT 11. Z 45087 A' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang
Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Wooden dish fragment.'
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. 198.
Event Date 1939
Author: Jodi Zhang
Description (Physical description)
One end is broken off and missing.
Event Date 14/3/2001
Author: Jodi Zhang
Description (Physical description)
Oval shaped wooden dish or bowl. One side slightly broken off and missing.
Event Date 6/9/2024
Author: Jodi Zhang
FM:27260
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