Object

Accession No

Z 46148.44 B

Description

Ivory pendant, bead or arrowhead. Roughly spherical piece of ivory with a pierced rectangular projection, likely for suspension.

Place

Arctic; North America; Canada; Nunavut; Baffin Island; Foxe Peninsula; Nuwata

Period

?Dorset ?Thule ?Inuit

Source

Manning, Thomas Henry [excavator]; British Canadian Arctic Expedition

Department

Arch

Reference Numbers

Z 46148.44 B; A44 B [Excavation no.]

Cultural Affliation

Material

Ivory

Local Term

Measurements

76mm

Events

Description (Physical description)
Ivory pendant
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Field collection)
Site A. Excavated by Thomas Manning, British Canadian Arctic Expedition, in August 1938.
Event Date 8/1938
Author: maa

Context (References)
Manning, T.H. (1943). ‘The Foxe Basin Coasts of Baffin Island.’ The Geographical Journal, vol. 101(5/6). pp. 225-251.
Event Date 1943
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (References)
Manning, T.H. (1950). ‘Eskimo Stone Houses in Foxe Basin’. Arctic, vol. 3(2). pp. 108-112.
Event Date 1950
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Small ball of ivory, with pierced, flat projection.
Event Date 15/2/2001
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
This appears similar to ivory beads for women's jackets as illustrated on page 147 of Boas, Franz, 1964. The Central Eskimo. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln. Arrowhead has also been added to the Object name and description due to the similarity with an arrowhead in the Canadian Museum of History, IX-F:444.
Event Date 25/9/2024
Author: Katrina Dring

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