Description (Physical description)
Original description for Z 46225 A-B: 'Wood; Point; Handle; Fitting; Awl; Spear - 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: Esther Laver

Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 46225.106 A-B: 'One piece of bone is present, some show traces of burning.'
Event Date 8/3/2001
Author: Esther Laver

Description (Physical description)
Seven pieces of worked wood. Two are cylindrical in shape, tapering to a flat point at one end, possibly wedges. Two have deliberate holes for a peg or nail. One still has a round wooden peg embedded through its width. One is a cylindrical length of wood slightly tapered at one end. The last piece is roughly worked into a curve at one end and flat on the other.
Event Date 2/10/2024
Author: Aedan Jones

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 27/9/2024
Author: Esther Laver