Accession No
1950.436 C
Description
Fragment of worked bone. Curved length of bone bevelled at one end and broken into a point.
Place
Arctic; North America; Canada; Nunavut; Foxe Basin; Melville Peninsula; Avvajja [Abverdjar]
Period
Dorset
Source
Rowley, Graham Westbrook [excavator and donor]; Innuksuk, Aipiluk [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1950.436 C; 490 [excavation no.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Bone
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Field collection)
Excavated by Graham Rowley and Aipiluk Innuksuk, June to August 1939. See archive for notebooks, map and correspondence (XA/1/8, XA/1/34–XA/1/36, and XA/1/40).
Event Date 1939
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (References)
Rowley, Graham. (1940). 'The Dorset Culture of the Eastern Arctic'. American Anthropologist, vol. 42. pp. 490-499
Event Date 1940
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Broken bone tube.
Event Date 1950
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (Field collection)
Rowley, G. (2007). Cold Comfort: My Love Affair with the Arctic. 2nd edition. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Event Date 2007
Author: Aedan Jones
Description (Physical description)
Fragment of worked bone. Curved length of bone bevelled at one end and broken into a point.
Event Date 27/8/2024
Author: Aedan Jones
FM:286947
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