Accession No
Z 46225.18 B
Description
One piece of whale bone. One side thinner than the other, possibly used as a scraper.
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
Cultural Affliation
Material
Bone
Local Term
Measurements
69mm
Events
Description (Physical description)
Bone fragment.
Event Date
Author: maa
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)
One piece of whale bone.
Event Date 9/3/2001
Author: Jodi Zhang
Description (Physical description)
One piece of whale bone. One side thinner than the other, possibly used as a scraper.
Event Date 26/9/2024
Author: Jodi Zhang
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 26/9/2024
Author: Jodi Zhang
FM:319515
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