Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 46225.76 [A-G]: 'Bead; Button'.
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: Esther Laver

Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 46225.76 [A-G]: 'One string of 6 beads, two blue, two white, one small red, half of a multi-faceted orange. One string of 14 beads: 2 cream, 1 multi-faceted orange; 3 multi-faceted blue; 1 long white bead with blue stripes; 1 small light blue; 1red; 1 long dark blue; 4 white. One string of 11 beads: 1 large dark blue, 1 orange; 1long white; 1 long unknown material; 4 blue; 1blue/grey; 2 white. One string of 37 beads: 1 very large white, 30 small white, 1 light blue, 2 turquoise; 1red, 1black. Two dark blue glass ?buttons, one still has the remains of metal attached. 12 half beads, 1 large white, 9 white, 2 blue.'
Event Date 9/3/2001
Author: Esther Laver

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 25/9/2024
Author: Esther Laver

Description (Physical description)
Six glass beads on a piece of modern string. One is cylindrical; four are discoidal; and one is polyhedral, and broken along the perforation. Two are white; two are blue; one is orange; and one is clear, and red on the exterior.
Event Date 26/9/2024
Author: Esther Laver