- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Bone bow from bow-drill with 2 perforations, from a grave
- Long description
- Bow for bow-drill, of bone with a groove and two perforations. [El.B 24/02/2012]
- Geographical reference
- Nunavut Qikiqtaaluk Region [Baffin Island] Cumberland Gulf unnamed grave
- 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 1906
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1906
- Materials and processes
- Material Bone, Process Perforated, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 279 mm, Width 16 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1906.48.8
- 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). These include 7 carved stone miniature lamps recorded as recovered from the graves of children (although perhaps most probably found placed on the surface of the graves, rather than excavated from them) (1906.48.10, 1906.76.18–22); a ‘very old native wooden doll’ (1906.76.17); 8 bone and stone harpoon-heads from graves (1900.65.8–9, 1903.48.5, 1903.49.5, 1906.48.5, 1906.48.8–9); and a range of bone arrow-heads and other bone, ivory and stone objects.'. [MJD (Verve) 11/1/2016]
Search terms: Tool, Fire, Death, Religion, Bow Drill, Grave Good