Context (Related Documents)
Piece of paper with objects reads: 'Certainly from Fox[e] Basin. Part of loose stuff (not in small bags) which Reynold [Bray] sent with Kanautia [or Kanautra]'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for Z 45379[.1-7]: 'Worked bone and ivory, eg. ivory knife handle.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Collected by Reynold Bray in the Foxe Basin, sometime between 1936 and 1937.
Event Date 1936
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Manning, T.H. (1943). ‘The Foxe Basin Coasts of Baffin Island.’ The Geographical Journal, vol. 101(5/6). pp. 225-251.
Event Date 1943
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 45379[.1-7]: 'Items as follows: bone knife handle; ivory harpoon head; ?ivory ?spear head - a long point - base broken off; - long thin object with a rounded head and what may be the broken remains of an 'eye' at the other end - possibly an awl used for stitching furs?; two pieces of bone - one flat and the other rounded on one surface - with two rows of four holes drilled equidistantly along the object; an ivory carved object, flat, roughly the shape of a whale's tail, with three holes drilled in it.'
Event Date 2/2/2001
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: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Amendments / updates)
Although tentatively entered in the Accession Register as collected and donated by Graham Rowley, this idno was entered in the database as collected by Thomas Lethbridge. This is incorrect, based on the note found with the objects, which refers to Reynold Bray. Bray was part of the British Canadian Arctic Expedition with Rowley and Thomas Manning, and he and Rowley continued to travel together after leaving the expedition in February 1937. It is not clear if it was collected before or after that date, so both Rowley and Manning have been tentatively added to the Source field as donors, with Bray as the collector.
Event Date 22/10/2024
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Incomplete harpoon head made from ivory. Round tip with parallel blade slot; bifurcated midrib along shaft; central circular line hole above open rectangular socket; vertical lashing slot one one side; single spur at base. Damage along socket; the shape suggests there would have been a lashing slot and spur on the missing side.
Event Date 24/10/2024
Author: J. Dack