Accession No

Z 46225.18 D


Description

One flat piece of worked bone. Two notches at one end and one notch at the other end with a groove running around the top surface of the object.


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

126mm


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 flat piece of bone with two notches at one end and one notch at the other end, and a groove running around the top surface of the object.
Event Date 9/3/2001
Author: Jodi Zhang


Description (Physical description)
One flat piece of worked bone. Two notches at one end and one notch at the other end with a groove running around the top surface of the object.
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:319517

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