Accession No
1950.495 D
Description
Piece of worked wood, possible arrow shaft. Sloped, pointed tip with an elongated circular cross section that tapers to two barbs at the proximal. Two faint horizontal incisions close to tip.
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
1950.495 D
Cultural Affliation
Material
Wood
Local Term
Measurements
150mm
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)
Broken wood arrow shaft. Pointed, sloped tip with an elongated circular cross section that tapers to two barbs at the proximal. Two faint horizontal incisions close to tip.
Event Date 11/10/2024
Author: J. Dack
FM:320116
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