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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