Accession No

Z 45232 E


Description

One wedge-like fragment of dark grey stone, roughly rectangular in shape; one face smoothened, possibly a sillit or sharpener.


Place

Arctic; North America; Canada; Nunavut; Baffin Island; Dexterity Fjord; Duart Bay


Period

Thule


Source

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


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

Z 45232 E


Cultural Affliation


Material

Stone


Local Term


Measurements

37mm


Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in black ink reading: '1937. BAFFIN LAND. DUART BAY. HUT I'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


Description (Physical description)
Stone. Tabular; Fragment.
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Hut I. Excavated in late August or early 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 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: Jan-Henrik Hartung


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: Jan-Henrik Hartung


Description (Physical description)
One wedge-like fragment of dark grey stone, roughly rectangular in shape; one face smoothened, possibly a sillit or sharpener.
Event Date 6/9/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


FM:319061

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