Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note stored with objects 1950.480 A-H reads: 'Odd pieces found at Abverdjar on the site on looking it over and turning over stones before leaving. Contemporary with excavated material.'
Event Date
Author: Zahni Blumenthal

Context (Field collection)
Catalogue card: 'Found on the site by Aipiling, an Inuit, when clearing up before leaving the excavation. These pieces are not stratified.'

Event Date 1939
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Surface find collected during excavations 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: Zahni Blumenthal

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)
Description for 1950.480 [A-H]: 'Seven pieces of worked antler, bone and ivory and a dogs bone. Excavation No. 1569.'
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)
Piece of worked ivory, possibly the tip of a knife. Slightly curved profile with a lenticular cross-section; straight sides taper toward a rounded tip at one end; the other end terminated by a transverse break.
Event Date 2/9/2024
Author: Zahni Blumenthal