Accession No
Z 45099
Description
Flat thin rectangular piece of bone, one holes drilled through one end. If it is a comb, all the teeth are 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 45099
Cultural Affliation
Material
Bone
Local Term
Measurements
53mm
Events
Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Bone comb?'
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang
Description (Physical description)
Perforated.
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Field collection)
Hut 14. 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)
Flat thin rectangular piece of bone, one holes drilled through one end. If it is a comb, all the teeth are missing.
Event Date 14/3/2001
Author: Jodi Zhang
FM:27284
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