Description (Labels & Markings)
Label attached to object reads: 'C.V.M.I'.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle

Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 46192.9 [A-F]: 'Knife Blade; Harpoon head'.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle

Context (Field collection)
Area CV. Excavated by Graham Rowley, British Canadian Arctic Expedition, likely in August 1936.
Event Date 8/1936
Author: maa

Context (References)
Rowley, G. (2007). Cold Comfort: My Love Affair with the Arctic. 2nd edition. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Event Date 2007
Author: Sophie Wardle

Description (Physical description)
Knife blade made from bone or antler. Tapering to a rounded point at one end; the other end is flat, asymmetrically splayed out, and is cut on a diagonal. Round perforation laterally placed near this end and located in an ovaloid impression on both faces. Two circular slots of different sizes also drilled into this end for attachment to handle. Lenticular to ovaloid cross-section. Pale cream-beige in colour. Polished surfaces, with strip of rough, porous texture on reverse.
Event Date 14/10/2024
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
When this collection (Z 46186 – Z 46192) was registered, it had lost association with its excavation site and was tentatively listed as from Southampton Island. However, the excavation markings (C1.I.1, for example) are consistent with the numbering system used by Rowley, whereby the first letter (C, in this case) corresponds to the first letter of the site. In the index to Rowley’s autobiography (2007) there is a list of excavations and Coats Island is the only one beginning with ‘C’, it has also not yet been identified in MAA’s collection. Unlike most of the other sites excavated by Rowley in c 1936-1939, MAA does not appear to have the excavation notebook for Coats Island, which would have confirmed this. Therefore Coats Island has been tentatively added to the Place field, and the tentative excavation date (August 1936) added to the Field Collection.
Event Date 8/10/2024
Author: Sophie Wardle