- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Bone snow-knife
- Long description
- Snow knife made from whale rib. [El.B 24/02/2012]
- Geographical reference
- Nunavut Qikiqtaaluk Region [Baffin Island] Cumberland Sound
- Person
- Field collector Edmund James Peck
- Field collector Church Missionary Society
- PRM source Edmund James Peck
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Thule Culture
- Date collected
- By 1903
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 05/1903
- Materials and processes
- Material Whale Bone Animal, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Width: max 64 mm, Length: max 398 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1903.49.7
- Associated publications
- Referred to on page 443 of 'North America', by Dan Hicks and Michael Petraglia, in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization, edited by Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013), pp. 409-454. Hicks and Petraglia write: ‘The remaining Nunavut material derives from three donations. First, there is an assemblage of c. 62 objects from a larger collection made by Edward James Peck of the Church Missionary Society from Cumberland Gulf, Qikiqtaaluk Region (Baffin Island) (1900.65.3– 15, 1903.49.2–18, 1906.48.1–15, 1906.76.1–26).'. [MJD (Verve) 11/1/2016]
1903.49.7
Bone snow-knife
On display
1903.49.7
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