Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 45121 B[.1-4]: 'Baleen fragment.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Hut 1. 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)
Description for Z 45121 B[.1-4]: '4 fragments of baleen, 2 of them woven into various random shapes.'
Event Date 5/2/2001
Author: Clare McKenna

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

Description (Physical description)
Two pieces of baleen. One is formed of a long strip folded in half, and wound tightly with a thinner thread of baleen. The second is formed of a woven knot of baleen, with several pieces protruding.
Event Date 12/9/2024
Author: Clare McKenna