Accession No
TEMP.02954
Description
Chert burin, subrectangular with one slightly serrated edge.
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
Cultural Affliation
Material
Stone; Chert
Local Term
Measurements
20mm
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: Esther Laver
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
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)
Chert burin, subrectangular with one slightly serrated edge.
Event Date 19/8/2024
Author: Esther Laver
FM:318145
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