Context (Related Documents)
Note written in green ink on top of old box reads: '359. 40 handles. Off [?]erlula I.'
Event Date
Author: Clare McKenna

Context (Field collection)
Found by Inuit in 1933 whilst they were ‘cutting turf for the walls of their houses and digging mud to shoe the runners of the komatiks’ (Rowley 2007, p. 88), and given to Father Étienne Bazin. Father Bazin gave the collection to Graham Rowley in March 1937. See archive (XA/1/35 and XA/1/39).
Event Date 1933
Author: maa

Context (References)
Rowley, G. (1940). ‘The Dorset culture of the eastern Arctic’. American Anthropologist, vol. 42(3). pp 490-499.
Event Date 1940
Author: Clare McKenna

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1950.359 A-B: 'Composite knife handles of bone or caribou horn. A... B: ten antler or horn or bone strips for lashing to the handles to give extra support to the blade. They have a small groove into which the blade fitted.'
Event Date 1950
Author: maa

Context (References)
Rowley, G. (2007). Cold Comfort: My Love Affair with the Arctic. 2nd edition. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Event Date 2007
Author: Clare McKenna

Description (Physical description)
Worked piece of bone, possibly a side-hafted micro-blade. One end terminates in a rounded point with many incised transverse notches, and has a shallow blade slot on one side, with a wider grooved slot below. The other end tapers to a small rounded tip with two transverse grooves, and a third groove one third down the shaft.
Event Date 16/8/2024
Author: Clare McKenna