Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 45249 B[.1-16]: 'Large; Worked wooden fragments'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Hut 1. 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)
Lethbridge, T.C. (1938). ‘Appendix II: Eskimo Archaeology’ in J.M. Wordie, et al. ‘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)
Large fragment of worked wood, probably a handle for a tool. Oval in shape with pointed ends, broken at one end; a large square shaped hole extends through the centre of the object at an angle, two circular drilled tunnels extending from the top of the object into the central hole, with two more circular drill holes on one side; below the square hole a line of drill holes across the object extending to half of its thickness, marking an area of wood that has been carved away creating a shelf.
Event Date 27/9/2024
Author: Stephanie Chinneck