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: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (References)
Rowley, G. (1940). ‘The Dorset culture of the eastern Arctic’. American Anthropologist, vol. 42(3). pp 490-499.
Event Date 1940
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Found together / assemblage)
Found with this collection [1950.467.1-30] are another 12 blades. One with the excavation number 1082; the others are unnumbered.
Event Date 24/1/2001
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

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: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
11 blades of grey and white coloured chert and flint. Includes nine complete blades and two blade fragments. Nine blades are long and narrow unworked flakes. One blade is long and narrow with a retouched edge. One blade has a pointed tip and a notched butt end.
Event Date 3/9/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Amendments / updates)
These 11 blades were found with 1950.467.1-30. None of the blades are marked with a number. The catalogue card for 1950.467 lists 30 excavation numbers but does not specify whether additional blades, without excavation numbers, are also part of this accession. Archive XA/1/32 contains photographs and pencil drawings of 8 out of the 11 blades; the drawings have been annotated with the accession number '1950.467', but it is uncertain when these drawings were made and annotated. Since it is unclear whether the 11 blades were originally part of 1950.467, the decision was taken to assign them a temporary accession number, TEMP.03029.1-11.
Event Date 3/9/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad