Accession No

Z 45221 B


Description

Slate harpoon head. It is triangular in shape, with a flat butt end of lenticular cross-section; thin edges taper to a missing point; it has a central ridge incorporating a round perforation, broken off at the tip at a second perforation.


Place

Arctic; North America; Canada; Nunavut; Baffin Island; Keel Bay


Period

?Thule ?Inuit


Source

Lethbridge, Thomas Charles [excavator and donor]; 1937 Wordie Expedition


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

Z 45221 B


Cultural Affliation


Material

Stone; Slate


Local Term


Measurements

26mm


Events

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Stone Pendant.'
Event Date
Author: Clare McKenna


Description (Physical description)
Plaque with 1 drilled hole
Event Date
Author: maa


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 (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 (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, 2.
Event Date 1939
Author: Clare McKenna


Description (Physical description)
Slate harpoon head. It is triangular in shape, with a flat butt end of lenticular cross-section; thin edges taper to a missing point; it has a central ridge incorporating a round perforation, broken off at the tip at a second perforation.
Event Date 9/9/2024
Author: Clare McKenna


FM:27380

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