Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in black ink reading: '1937. BAFFIN LAND. DUART BAY'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Description (Physical description)
Point of ?narwhal tusk
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Modern hut. Excavated in late August or early September 1937 by Thomas Lethbridge during the 1937 Cambridge Expedition to North West Greenland and the Canadian Arctic, led by James Mann Wordie. See the University Library for excavation notebook (MS Add.9258/3).
Event Date 8/1937
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: Jan-Henrik Hartung

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: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Description (Physical description)
One worked ivory tusk, possibly from a narwhal. Slightly curved and tapering towards a natural rounded tip; distal end worked into a wedge shape with a transversely drilled circular hole with bevelled edges. Areas of yellow and brown surface coloration; surface partly defoliating.
Event Date 9/9/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung