Description (Labels & Markings)
Faintly marked with black ink: '1195'.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle

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: 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: Sophie Wardle

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1950.397 A-U: 'Mathiassen Type 5. Twenty-one horn and ivory harpoon heads, perforated with two holes for the line at right angles to the blade. Swallow-tail end with narrow rectilinear socket for fixing to foreshaft and socket at the point to take a stone blade. [...] O: small harpoon head, one tail broken. (Excavation No. 1195) [...].'
Event Date 1950
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Exhibited: Archaeology Gallery, case 67, Clarke Gallery, 1984-2010.
Event Date 1984
Author: Sophie Wardle

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: Sophie Wardle

Description (Physical description)
Small harpoon head made from bone or caribou antler. Unevenly shaped tip with an end-blade slot. Tapering form with two sub-rectangular line holes midway down length, perpendicular to blade slot. Deeply notched base forming two symmetrical pointed spurs containing a closed socket. The surface of one spur is now broken off and missing on one side. Rough texture on one face. Mathiassen Type 5.
Event Date 19/8/2024
Author: Sophie Wardle