Description (Labels & Markings)
Object marked 'ELLESMERE TURNSTONE BEACH HUT 13. Z 45096' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Hollowed worked tooth.'
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. 200, Fig. 8, No. 1.
Event Date 1939
Author: Jodi Zhang

Description (Physical description)
The tooth has been hollowed out and there are two incised circles, one on each side of the tooth.
Event Date 14/3/2001
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Needle case made of ivory. Hollow with openings at both ends; grooved circle on either side.
Event Date 5/9/2024
Author: Jodi Zhang