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Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 2-3880, described as Ivory box with wooden top with missing thong. Engraved animals and hunting scene. Cut from section of a tusk. Geometric bands incised at both edges and twice diagonally through the surface.

Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 2-3890, described as Tubular box of enlaced birch bark with a lid and bottom made of wood. Thong loop in lid. Used to keep ashes of fungi in. The ashes are mingled with their tobacco.

Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 2-3879, described as Ivory box with wooden bottom. Incised hunting scenes include caribou and umiak. Round hole in top, probably for stopper. Made from section of a walrus tusk. Cap box? Might be quid box or tourist novelty.

Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 2-3883, described as Small bone box for caps with wooden lid and bottom; thong attaches to the lid. Leather band encircling. Body cut from cross-section of a walrus tusk. Red stained wood and leather.

Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 2-3882, described as Small bone box. Section cut from a walrus tusk. Elaborated with carved ridges, colored with red ochre and fitted with a wooden bottom and lid (thong in lid). Red-stained with encircling grooves. For caps.

Hearst Museum object titled Kava bowl, accession number 11-1075, described as Pointed kava bowl.