Accession No

1950.456 T


Description

Quartz arrowhead. Triangular in shape with a lenticular cross section and a hollow base forming two barbs.


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

1950.456 T; 1492


Cultural Affliation


Material

Stone; Quartz


Local Term


Measurements


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. Fig. 2.L (1950.457 A)
Event Date 1940
Author: Aedan Jones


Description (Physical description)
Hollow based point.
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: Aedan Jones


Description (Physical description)
Quartz arrowhead. Triangular in shape with a lenticular cross section and a hollow base forming two barbs.
Event Date 2/9/2024
Author: Aedan Jones


FM:318907

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