Accession No
Z 45092
Description
Oval dish with handle, made of bone. Rounded rim; one angled handle on rim; flattened base; roughly 1/3 of body broken off and missing; traces of burning on surface.
Place
Americas; North America; Arctic; Canada; Northwest Territories; Nunavut; Ellesmere Island; Turnstone Beach
Period
Inuit
Source
Lethbridge, Thomas Charles [excavator and donor]; 1937 Wordie Expedition
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
Z 45092
Cultural Affliation
Material
?Bone
Local Term
Measurements
180mm
Events
Description (Labels & Markings)
Object marked '1937 ELLESMERE LAND/ TURNSTONE BEACH/ HUT 13. Z 45092'.
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang
Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Bone dish with handle.'
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang
Context (Field collection)
Hut 13. 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. 187–233.
Event Date 1939
Author: Jodi Zhang
Description (Physical description)
Part of the body is broken and missing. Traces of burning.
Event Date 14/3/2001
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Oval dish with handle, made of bone. Rounded rim; one angled handle on rim; flattened base; roughly 1/3 of body broken off and missing; traces of burning on surface.
Event Date 12/9/2024
Author: Jodi Zhang
FM:27274
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