Accession No
1950.400 B
Description
Small fragment of a harpoon head made of ivory; portion of socket and line hole extant. Mathiassen Type VI.
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
1950.400 B; 26 [Excavation no.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ivory
Local Term
Measurements
40mm
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: 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: Zahni Blumenthal
Description (Physical description)
1950.400 A-W: 'Parts of twenty three walrus ivory and caribou horn large harpoon heads, Type VI, line holes cut parallel to the blade, forked end with narrow rectilinear socket to hold the foreshaft and the points grooved to hold a stone tip. [...] B: fragment of socket, ivory. [...]'
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: Zahni Blumenthal
Description (Physical description)
Small fragment of a harpoon head made of ivory; portion of socket and line hole extant. Mathiassen Type VI.
Event Date 19/8/2024
Author: Zahni Blumenthal
FM:318113
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