Biscuit
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- OBJECT TYPE
- N/A
- DATE
- 1920
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1973.0155.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Probably made of wheat flour and sugar.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 22.6 cm
- Width
- 22.3 cm
- Height
- 4.5 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Exploration and Survey
- Category
- Expedition artifacts
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
Example of food used by explorers in Canada's North. These biscuits were part of a cache left by Captain Godfred Hansen at Cape Columbia on Ellesmere Island in 1920. The cache was one of three deposited in case of emergency for an expedition by Roald Amundsen, who was attempting to sail across the Arctic Ocean in the Maud. The other two caches were at Fort Conger and Cape Richardson. Hansen travelled with a team of four Inuit. None of the three caches were ever used as Amundsen's expedition did not make it that far north. - Function
-
Food for ship's crew. - Technical
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Sample of food used on long sea voyages. It's dry nature made it easy to preserve. Would, in typical British fashion, have been dipped in tea to soften and make edible. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- None.
- Missing
- None apparent
- Finish
- Unknown
- Decoration
- N/A
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Unknown Manufacturer, Biscuit, circa 1920, Artifact no. 1973.0155, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1973.0155.001/
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