Accession No
1950.386 B
Description
Quartzite rubbing stone. Roughly rectangular with a square cross-section, with two worked surfaces, polished from use. White, opaque stone.
Place
Arctic; North America; Canada; Nunavut; Foxe Basin; Melville Peninsula; Avvajja [Abverdjar]
Period
Dorset
Source
Rowley, Graham Westbrook [collector and donor]; Bazin, Étienne (Father) [collector]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1950.386 B
Cultural Affliation
Material
Stone; Quartzite
Local Term
Measurements
100mm
Events
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: Esther Laver
Description (Physical description)
Description for 1950.386 A-B: 'Two rubbing stones of quartzite. A: dark greenish grey. One side used. B: white, opaque quartzite. Two sides used'.
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: Esther Laver
Description (Physical description)
Quartzite rubbing stone. Roughly rectangular with a square cross-section, with two worked surfaces, polished from use. White, opaque stone.
Event Date 19/8/2024
Author: Esther Laver
FM:318140
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