Accession No
Z 45249 A.43
Description
Wooden cylinder shaped plug or peg, or possibly a float bar used with harpoon floats; two circular in section, one more square in section; widest at midpoint then tapering towards both blunt ends.
Place
Arctic; Greenland; Avannaata; Melville Bay; North Ryder Island
Period
?Thule ?Inuit
Source
Lethbridge, Thomas Charles [excavator and donor]; 1937 Wordie Expedition
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
Cultural Affliation
Material
Wood
Local Term
Measurements
117mm
Events
Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 45249 A[.1-43]: 'Small; Worked wooden fragments'
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Field collection)
Excavated in August 1937 by Thomas Lethbridge during the 1937 Cambridge Expedition to North West Greenland and the Canadian Arctic, led by James Mann Wordie. According to Lethbridge (1938), this was the same rectangular house that Thomas T. Paterson began excavating 3 years earlier during the 1934 Wordie Expedition. Lethbridge did not include the results in his 1939 article (JRAI, vol. 69(2), pp. 187-233), noting that it would be ‘published by T.T. Paterson in due course’. See MAA photo collection for lantern slides and photographs; see the University Library for excavation notebook (MS Add.9258/3).
Event Date 8/1937
Author: maa
Context (References)
Wordie, J.M. et al. (1938). ‘An Expedition to North West Greenland and the Canadian Arctic in 1937’. The Geographical Journal, vol. 92(5). pp 385-418
Event Date 1938
Author: Stephanie Chinneck
Description (Physical description)
Wooden cylinder shaped plug or peg, or possibly a float bar used with harpoon floats; two circular in section, one more square in section; widest at midpoint then tapering towards both blunt ends.
Event Date 26/9/2024
Author: Stephanie Chinneck
FM:319573
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