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Hearst Museum object titled Bird spear, accession number 2-6285, described as Three tapered points, inner edges barbed. Attached to wooden shaft with sinew. Tip of one point broken off.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Dipper, accession number 2-6273, described as Wooden dipper, with handle. Bent wood lashed together with spruce root to form dipper with integral handle extending from side. Fitted bottom held in place with wood peg (rivets); the outside of bottom is decorated with incised swastika.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Float board, accession number 2-5828, described as Reel and frame for fishing on a kayak, 1 rod broken, 2 bone seals attached to frame. Made of two poles at angle attached to a hoop made of bentwood; two small ivory seals at set on distal end of the holder; the parts are held together with leather thong and spruce root lines; the projecting pieces are inserted under a deck line.
Hearst Museum object titled Foreshaft, accession number 2-4348, described as Stone point, slate blade, red-stained wood handle. Ground slate blade inserted into wooden shaft and bound with spruce root.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6318, described as Harpoon; bone point, barbed on both sides, attached to a leather thong, tied to the shaft (81 cm from tip); bone finger rest, shaped like a killer whale dorsal fin, is lashed 49 cm down shaft; bone socket lashed with spruce root binding to shaft; no retaining line. Native name: nagiiquyaq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6316, described as Seal harpoon and icepick combined. Copper blade set on a toggling ivory head, with leather harpoon line; long curved ivory foreshaft set in socket attached to wooden shaft; long spur of ivory; retaining line of leather; binding of baleen & spruce root.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Knife sharpener, accession number 2-4247, described as Beaver tooth knife sharpener. Beaver tooth set in wood handle. Spruce root binding.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Marmot trap, accession number 2-4417, described as Cylindrical, 2 pieces wood fastened together with willow bark lashing. Hollow.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Marmot trap, accession number 2-4418, described as Cylindrical, 2 pieces wood fastened together with willow bark lashing. Hollow. Made of two half tubes (carved wood), secured together with spruce root strings; at one end are two holes through which a string with the bait was attached. Toward the entrance on the other side, on the inside is a groove with a hole in the top.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Mesh measure, accession number 2-4194, described as Mesh measure/gauge. Antler with wood extension of handle. Spruce root wrapper on handle. Antler, handle thickened with piece of wood, wrapped with spruce root; tied at juncture of blade and handle with strip of fish skin; smooth wear patina.

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