Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label with pencil reads: 'Baffin Land, [?]Lescheuts Eagle Harbour. Hut 1.'
Event Date
Author: Clare McKenna

Description (Physical description)
Baleen fragment, mat.
Event Date
Author: Clare McKenna

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)
Baleen strips formed, curved and held in place by finer strips of baleen to form a kind of woven mat.
Event Date 5/2/2001
Author: maa

Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2024.6105 | Freezing
Event Date 26/11/2024
Author: Kirsty Kernohan

Description (Physical description)
A woven mat of baleen. Formed of baleen strips tied in three sections with rounded ends and knots.
Event Date 12/9/2024
Author: Clare McKenna