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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