Description (Physical description)
Bone Harpoon Head
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Hut 4. Excavated in September 1937 by Thomas Lethbridge during the 1937 Cambridge Expedition to North West Greenland and the Canadian Arctic, led by James Mann Wordie. See MAA photo collection for photographs; see the University Library for excavation notebook (MS Add.9258/3).
Event Date 9/1937
Author: maa

Context (References)
Lethbridge, T.C. (1938). ‘Appendix II: Eskimo Archaeology’ in J.M. Wordie, et al. ‘An Expedition to North West Greenland and the Canadian Arctic in 1937’. The Geographical Journal, vol. 92(5). pp 385-418
Event Date 1938
Author: Clare McKenna

Context (References)
Lethbridge, T.C. (1939) ‘Archaeological Data from the Canadian Arctic’, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 69(2), pp. 187–233.
Event Date 1939
Author: Clare McKenna

Description (Physical description)
Bone harpoon head. The body is triangular shaped with a large perforation through it and an open socket below, with the walls largely broken off and a hole, possibly the single line hole, on one side. The tip has a large hooked projection, curving to one side with a grooved line on the opposite side.
Event Date 12/9/2024
Author: Clare McKenna