Description (Physical description)
Bone handle with wooden peg.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Label formerly attached to object reads: 'C V M I.'
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

Description (Physical description)
Handle; Peg; Fitting - Peg appears to be also bone. Could be part of a sled.
Event Date 2/3/2001
Author: Sophie Wardle

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)
Fragment of worked antler; perhaps from a handle or a fitting from a sledge. Approximately rectangular in form; broken off at one end; squared at the other, with a damaged section protruding at a right angle from one corner. Several grooves down both sides at each end. Broken peg with round cross-section inserted two thirds of the way down the length. This may be made from antler or bone. Light brown in colour. Strip of rough, porous texture on underside.
Event Date 24/10/2024
Author: Sophie Wardle

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