Accession No

Z 46225.16 B


Description

Worked bone point, curved and both ends sharpened.


Place

Arctic; Greenland; Avannaata; Illorsuit Island [Ubekendt Island]


Period

Inuit


Source

Feachem, Richard William de Fécamp [excavator and donor]; Carmichael, Donald M. [donor]; 1938 Cambridge West Greenland Expedition


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

Z 46225.16 B


Cultural Affliation


Material

Bone


Local Term


Measurements

113mm


Events

Context (Field collection)
Excavated in July or August by Richard Feachem during the 1938 Cambridge West Greenland Expedition, organised by Donald Carmichael. See archive for excavation notebooks, including sketches and object lists (XA/1/25/5 and XA/1/33).
Event Date 7/1938
Author: maa


Context (References)
Drever, H.I. (1939). ‘The Cambridge expedition to West Greenland, 1938’. The Geographical Journal, vol. 94(5). pp 388-401
Event Date 1939
Author: Jodi Zhang


Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 46225.16 [A-B]: 'Two bone points, one curved.'
Event Date 9/3/2001
Author: maa


Context (Amendments / updates)
This collection was tentatively entered as being collected by James Mann Wordie in 1938 but has now been identified as from the excavations undertaken by Richard Feachem during the 1938 Cambridge West Greenland Expedition. Feachem excavated several sites on Illorsuit [Ubekendt] Island, including Sarqa, Naqerdloq, Kussininguaq and Igdlorssuit, which are recorded in his excavation notebooks (XA/1/25/5 and XA/1/33). More work is required in order to identify which of these sites this object comes from.
Event Date 24/9/2024
Author: Jodi Zhang


Description (Physical description)
Worked bone point, curved and both ends sharpened.
Event Date 26/9/2024
Author: Jodi Zhang


FM:319513

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