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

Context (Related Documents)
See lantern slide (LS.20878.TC2) in Photographic Collection.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Description (Physical description)
Harpoon head with holes.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Hut I. 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 piece of worked wood, roughly oval to lozenge in cross-section, possibly a harpoon head. One end slotted and rounded with a transversely drilled circular hole; one half of slotted end broken off and missing. Other end tapering from a slightly wider bit into a rounded tip, showing another transversely drilled circular hole at widest part.
Event Date 10/9/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung