Context (Related Documents)
Old label adhered, notes: "Ellesmere abt 1 mile NW of Turnstone B picked up by TCL on site with tent rings etc."
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang

Description (Labels & Markings)
Object marked '1937 ELLESMERE LAND. TENT RING SITE. Z 45072 A' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for Z 45072 [A-B]: '4 barbed points, 1 line rest.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Tent Ring Site A. Excavated in August 1937 by Thomas Lethbridge during the 1937 Cambridge Expedition to North West Greenland and the Canadian Arctic, led by James Mann Wordie. See MAA photo collection for lantern slides and photographs; see the University Library for excavation notebook (MS Add.9258/3).
Event Date 8/1937
Author: maa

Context (References)
Lethbridge, T.C. (1938). ‘Appendix II: Eskimo Archaeology’ in J.M. Wordie, et al. ‘An Expedition to North West Greenland and the Canadian Arctic in 1937’. The Geographical Journal, vol. 92(5). pp 385-418
Event Date 1938
Author: Jodi Zhang

Context (References)
Lethbridge, T.C. (1939) ‘Archaeological Data from the Canadian Arctic’, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 69(2), pp. 190, Fig. 6, No. 5.
Event Date 1939
Author: Jodi Zhang

Description (Physical description)
Barbed point from a fish-spear or harpoon, made of ivory. Pointed tip with barbs on either side along upper half; lower half with one side notched and one circular indentation close to base.
Event Date 4/9/2024
Author: Jodi Zhang