Object

Accession No

Z 46153.132

Description

Incomplete harpoon head made from ivory, part of the socket include one spur broken off and missing. Rounded apex features a blade shelf on one face with a transverse lashing groove on the obverse face; single transverse line hole; extant portion of socket suggest an open socket with symmetrical basal spurs, each pierced with a single lashing hole.

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 46153.132; E132 [Excavation no.]

Cultural Affliation

Material

Antler

Local Term

Measurements

74mm

Events

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)
Part has broken off and is missing.
Event Date 1/2/2001
Author: Zahni Blumenthal

Description (Physical description)
Incomplete harpoon head made from ivory, part of the socket include one spur broken off and missing. Rounded apex features a blade shelf on one face with a transverse lashing groove on the obverse face; single transverse line hole; extant portion of socket suggest an open socket with symmetrical basal spurs, each pierced with a single lashing hole.
Event Date 23/9/2024
Author: Zahni Blumenthal

FM:27657