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)
Split bone point. Possibly bone or antler. Pointed tip; flares to hollow cross section; broken off at the butt. Polished around tip.
Event Date 11/10/2024
Author: J. Dack