Accession No

Z 46225.93 I


Description

22 sherds of white glazed pottery with brown and blue mottled pattern on exterior. Some sherds have been reconstructed from smaller piece and some fit together, including part of a ring base.


Place

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


Period

Inuit ?18th century ?19th century


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

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 46225.93 [A-K]: 'A large number of pottery 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)
Description for Z 46225.93 [A-K]: 'Some sherds are glazed with decoration. Several pieces appear to come from one vessel.'
Event Date 8/3/2001
Author: Jodi Zhang


Description (Physical description)
22 sherds of white glazed pottery with brown and blue mottled pattern on exterior. Some sherds have been reconstructed from smaller piece and some fit together, including part of a ring base.
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:319551

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