Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for Z 45389 [A-B]: 'Piece of worked bone.'
Event Date
Author: Clare McKenna

Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 45389 [A-B]: 'Bone scapula'
Event Date
Author: maa

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

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)
Large piece of bone, likely a paddle or spade. Roughly triangular, its handle is rectangular, slightly narrowed by diagonal notches cut on both sides with a diagonal butt end; the other end widens and thins into a flat end, slightly bevelled on one side. Two curved notches are missing from one long edge.
Event Date 30/9/2024
Author: Clare McKenna