Accession No

Z 45105 E


Description

Stand of thin baleen strips.


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 45105 E


Cultural Affliation


Material

Baleen


Local Term


Measurements

40mm


Events

Context (Related Documents)
Hand-written label found with object reads: 'ELLESMERE LAND/ TURNSTONE BEACH/ HUT 7/ Z 45105 E'.
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang


Description (Physical description)
Baleen strand.
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Hut 7. 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


Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2024.6105 | Freezing
Event Date 26/11/2024
Author: Kirsty Kernohan


Description (Physical description)
Stand of thin baleen strips.
Event Date 4/9/2024
Author: Jodi Zhang


FM:27292

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