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)
Fragment of worked wood, broken at one end and along one side, unbroken end curves inwards to create a handle shape at one end. One side with drilled hollows. Possibly a snowbeater or other object repurposed as a drill base.
Event Date 27/9/2024
Author: Stephanie Chinneck