Description (Physical description)
Carved swimming bird with woman's torso.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Found together / assemblage)
According to Lethbridge (1939, pp. 230-231), the 'single autumn hut' found at Keel Bay 'was standing on an older one' and the objects recovered were from the 'earlier occupation layer [Thule]'.
Event Date 9/1937
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Hut I. 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. Fig 27, 1.
Event Date 1939
Author: Clare McKenna

Description (Physical description)
Small carved ivory anthropo-zoomorphic figure, possibly a game piece. It has an oval shaped body with flat base, like a swimming animal; with humanoid torso rising at a diagonal angle upwards, arms on both sides and a small, unworked head.
Event Date 9/9/2024
Author: Clare McKenna