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. [...] W: walrus ivory. Tip and socket broken. Three dots engraved above line hole. (Excavation No. 1496).'
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)
Harpoon head made of walrus tusk ivory. Narrow, squared tip with blade slot, one face broken off and missing; single transverse line hole with three incised dots arranged in a triangle on ventral face at centre; closed, rectangular socket with double symmetrical spurs, face of socket broken off and missing. Mathiassen Type VI.
Event Date 19/8/2024
Author: Zahni Blumenthal