Description (Physical description)
Piece of worked shoulder blade.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in pencil: 'Noksarnakla Melville House GWR'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
House site. Excavated by Graham Rowley, British Canadian Arctic Expedition, in June-July 1936. See archive for excavation notebook and correspondence (XA/1/23 and XA/1/8).
Event Date 6/1936
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Bennett, P.M. (1940). ‘The British Canadian Arctic Expedition’. The Geographical Journal, vol. 95(2), pp. 109-120.
Event Date 1940
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
The width of the shoulder blade with a deep rounded off groove cut in the centre of one side and five pairs of holes drilled through the bone running down beside the groove.
Event Date 2/2/2001
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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)
The Period was previously given as ‘Eskimo’ and the date recorded as ‘?Recent’. However Graham Rowley noted that ‘all the artifacts I excavated [at Nuqsarnaq] were… in the Thule tradition’ (2007, p 30), and the Period field has been updated accordingly.
Event Date 22/10/2024
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Amendments / updates)
This object was tentatively registered as being collected and donated by Thomas Lethbridge. However the object is marked with Graham Westbrook Rowley's initials (GWR) and with a variation of the site name Noksarnaq. Therefore the Place, Source and Field Collection information has been updated accordingly.
Event Date 22/10/2024
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Bone of shoulder blade, possibly worked into a paddle or spade. Of roughly triangular shape, the blade edge is curved and the walls taper inwards. The butt end has a deep rounded off groove in the centre, likely for a socketed handle, with five of perforations on each side. On the reverse face is are two round impressions that do not perforate. The butt end is flat, with a small section broken off from one perforation.
Event Date 23/10/2024
Author: Clare McKenna