Accession No

1950.495 B


Description

Jaw bone fragment, possibly modified. Pointed tip with two teeth sockets, flares to large triangular divot, tapers to thin curved butt.


Place

Arctic; North America; Canada; Nunavut; Baffin Island


Period

?Dorset ?Thule ?Inuit


Source

Rowley, Graham Westbrook [collector and donor]; Evalak [collector]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers


Cultural Affliation


Material

Bone


Local Term


Measurements

80mm


Events

Context (Field collection)
Catalogue card (1950.489) notes: 'Given to G.W. Rowley by an Eskimo (Evalik [or Evalak]) in Admiralty Inlet. Said to have come from a site on the mainland, opposite Yeoman Island.' This would likely have been in July or August 1937.
Event Date 7/1937
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1950.495 A-G: 'Miscellaneous objects of bone and wood. A: small, cruciform piece of cut wood. B: part of jaw (?from animal). C: knife handle, grooved at one end and perforated at the other. D: broken, wooden shaft. E: split bone. F: bone point, with hollow socket at the broad end. G: ivory ?wound plug, with one end (socket end broken).'
Event Date 1950
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Jaw bone fragment, possibly modified. Pointed tip with small two teeth sockets, flares to large triangular divot, tapers to thin curved butt.
Event Date 11/10/2024
Author: J. Dack


FM:320113

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