1906.48.9

Collection type

Object

Description

Bone perforated toggle

Long description

Bone toggle for seal-hauling line with central perforation. [El.B 24/02/2012]

Geographical reference

Canada

Northern America > North America > Canada

Nunavut Qikiqtaaluk Region [Baffin Island] Cumberland Gulf unnamed island unnamed grave

Cultural groups

Inuit (Greenland)

Inuit

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

Dimensions

Length: max 79 mm, Width: max 19 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1906.48.9

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]

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