Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten note attached to object with string reads: 'Found together; position as tied.'
Event Date
Author: Zahni Blumenthal

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

Context (Field collection)
Site E. Excavated by Thomas Manning, British Canadian Arctic Expedition, in August 1938.
Event Date 08/1938
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: Zahni Blumenthal

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

Description (Physical description)
Two pieces of harpoon, dissimilar.
Event Date 1/2/2001
Author: Zahni Blumenthal

Description (Physical description)
Two-part harpoon head made from ivory, the tip and the body being two separate pieces previously attached to one another with sinew twine; part of socket including one spur broken off and missing. Tip features a blade shelf on one face with a broad, transverse lashing groove on the obverse face; each corner of the lower edge of the tip features a circular perforation with a longitudinal groove beneath it; these correspond to matching lashings holes on the main body of the harpoon head. Main body features a single, transverse line hole; an open socket flanked either side by a single lashing hole and double symmetrical spurs, one broken off and missing.
Event Date 19/9/2024
Author: Zahni Blumenthal