Accession No

Z 45253 B


Description

Bone or antler toggle. Roughly rectangular, with one hole pierced latitudinally through the centre, and one hole partially drilled longitudinally at one end.


Place

Arctic; North America; Canada; Nunavut; Baffin Island; Bergesen Island; Lemming Harbour


Period

Inuit


Source

Lethbridge, Thomas Charles [excavator and donor]; 1937 Wordie Expedition


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers


Cultural Affliation


Material

?Bone; ?Antler


Local Term


Measurements

83mm


Events

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for Z 45253 [A-B]: 'Pieces of worked bone'.
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Huts 5 and 2. Excavated in September 1937 by Thomas Lethbridge during the 1937 Cambridge Expedition to North West Greenland and the Canadian Arctic, led by James Mann Wordie. See the University Library for excavation notebook (MS Add.9258/3).
Event Date 9/1937
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: Esther Laver


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: Esther Laver


Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 45253 [A-B]: 'Two handles made from ?antler ?bone and one toggle/unfinished harpoon head made from ?antler.'
Event Date 13/6/2001
Author: Esther Laver


Description (Physical description)
Bone or antler toggle. Roughly rectangular, with one hole pierced latitudinally through the centre, and one hole partially drilled longitudinally at one end.
Event Date 5/9/2024
Author: Esther Laver


FM:319054

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