Context (Related Documents)
Hand-written label found with objects reads: 'ELLESMERE/ TURNSTONE BEACH/ HUT 7/ Z 45105 A'.
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Baleen'.
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang

Context (Field collection)
Hut 7. 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. 187–233.
Event Date 1939
Author: Jodi Zhang

Description (Physical description)
One has one holes drilled through it.
Event Date 14/3/2001
Author: maa

Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2024.6105 | Freezing
Event Date 28/11/2024
Author: Kirsty Kernohan

Description (Physical description)
Elongated strip of baleen, with one circular perforation roughly in the middle, very flaky. Some fragments are detached but present.
Event Date 4/9/2024
Author: Jodi Zhang