Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note stored with objects 1950.481[.1-11] reads: 'Odd things found by me around the site of Abverdjar on the surface but not excavated. Could be of any date.' A later hand has added: '(Rowley).'
Event Date
Author: Zahni Blumenthal

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 (Field collection)
Catalogue card for 1950.481[.1-12] notes: 'Collected on the surface around the site at Abverdjar and might be of any age.'
Event Date 1939
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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)
Catalogue card for 1950.481[.1-12]: '[...] These include a haft for an adze, or scraper blade; two thick, pointed pieces of bone; two bone and ivory fragments; one finished and one part made harpoon head; two soapstone sherds; slate point fixed with a copper rivet to an antler shaft; chert point. All numbered 1576 [sic].'

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)
Unfinished harpoon head made of walrus tusk ivory. Basic formed roughed out; pointed tip; opposed faces for transverse line hole cut but not perforated; central V-shape forming two spurs incised on both faces but not cut through. Mathiassen Type VI
Event Date 2/9/2024
Author: Zahni Blumenthal