Accession No
Z 45386
Description
Four pieces of three stone pots, likely used for cooking. Formed of one reconstructed sherd and one adjoining that has become detached, one pot is formed of a thick, flat base with shallow, flared and wide walls and a rounded rim. Another piece is reconstructed and burnished on both sides; the fourth is very thick.
Place
Arctic; North America; Canada; Nunavut; Melville Peninsula; Naujaat; Naujan
Period
Thule
Source
Rowley, Graham Westbrook [excavator and donor]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
Z 45386; N50 [Excavation no.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Stone
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Larger pieces of stone pot.'
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Found together / assemblage)
Rowley's notebooks describe N50 [excavation number] as '20 pieces of cooking pots, handles etc. in a [?ats] bag.' Counting the adjoining/connceting pieces as one, 20 stone pieces of cooking pots have been found within the records of Z 45385, Z 45386 and Z45390 C. Therefore N50 has been included in all three records.
Event Date 1938
Author: Clare McKenna
Context (Field collection)
Excavated by Graham Rowley in September 1938 on the site of Therkel Mathiassen’s 1922 excavation. According Rowley (see XA/1/35), he ‘dug for a few afternoons in the lower levels of one of the igloos [Mathiassen] had not completed’. See excavation notebook for list and drawings (XA/1/39/3).
Event Date 9/1938
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Two pieces appear to join together.
Event Date 20/2/2001
Author: Clare McKenna
Context (References)
Rowley, G. (2007). Cold Comfort: My Love Affair with the Arctic. 2nd edition. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Event Date 2007
Author: Clare McKenna
Context (Amendments / updates)
Z 45385 - Z 45399 were originally listed as being collected and donated by Thomas Manning, but have now been identified as being excavated and donated by Graham Rowley. The Source field has been updated accordingly.
Event Date 23/9/2024
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Four pieces of three stone pots, likely used for cooking. Formed of one reconstructed sherd and one adjoining that has become detached, one pot is formed of a thick, flat base with shallow, flared and wide walls and a rounded rim. Another piece is reconstructed and burnished on both sides; the fourth is very thick.
Event Date 30/9/2024
Author: Clare McKenna
FM:27297
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