Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Piece of worked wood, ?projectile.'
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)
Small wooden spearhead. It has a triangular head with flat end, tip missing; it has flat shoulders, with an expanding stem that widens to accommodate a central rectangular socket cut-out with lashing marks around it. The end is missing, broken off at a diagonal.
Event Date 30/9/2024
Author: Clare McKenna